Iran Fires Hundreds of Missiles at Israel; Three IDF Airbases Damaged, 5+ F-35 Jets Destroyed, Significant IDF Casualties
Background: Iran fired over 180 ballistic missiles at Israel in response to the Israeli killings of Ismail Haniyeh, Hassan Nasrallah, and two high-ranking IRGC officers. Most were hypersonic and hence impossible to shoot down.
From Iranian sources:
Israel: Three IDF airbases, Netavim (Negev), Hatzarim, and Tel Nof (Tel Aviv) suffered such serious damage from ballistic missiles that they were declared out of service.
At Netavim, ballistic missiles destroyed 20 F-35 jets on the ground. At Hatzarim, many battle tanks were destroyed with ballistic missiles.
In Tel Aviv, Mossad Headquarters, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Electronic Intelligence Service, and Unit 8200 were hit with barrages of ballistic missiles.
Ballistic missiles were also fired at Dimona (site of Israel’s nuclear reactor, nuclear weapons, and nuclear research agency), Beersheva, gas fields offshore of Ashkelon. I’m not sure what the targets or results were in Dimona and Beersheva.
A gas platform off the coast of…
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