卫星照片显示伊朗针对美国的通信和雷达系统发动攻击

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A pair of 40-foot-wide satellite communications dishes were damaged at a Navy facility in Bahrain.

While the base has other communications links, the destruction of those primary systems would significantly narrow its communications capacity and speed, Steffan Watkins, a researcher who studies militaries, told CNN. “It would be an exaggeration to say they went from high speed to dialup, but that’s the idea,” Watkins said.