Reports: Israeli Airstrike Derails Iran’s Missile and Drone Production, Blows Holes in Air Defense Cover
The Israeli warplanes took out Iran’s advance Russian-made air defense systems, making regime’s nuclear weapons and terrorist assets vulnerable to any future Israeli airstrike.
Israel’s pre-dawn airstrike on Saturday hit Iran’s missile factories and a former nuclear weapons site, the assessment published by Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) concludes.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also succeeded in blowing up Iran’s Russian-made air defense cover in a strike, dubbed “Days of Repentance,” that came in three massive waves and lasted nearly three hours.
The IDF fighter jets flew deep inside the hostile territory and destroyed well-guarded targets some 1200 miles from Israel, bearing witness to the courage of the men and women who flew the missions — a fact widely ignored in the mainstream media.
Our Israeli Air Force planes last night 🇮🇱
We will do whatever it takes to protect the people of Israel. pic.twitter.com/AJP8TeYvXN
— Israel ישראל (@Israel) October 26, 2024
Israeli fighter jets hit Iran’s biggest weapons manufacturing hub linked to its nuclear weapons program outside the capital, Tehran, the DC-based think tank said. “Israel Defense Forces struck the Parchin military complex, east of Tehran, which is one of Iran’s most expansive and sensitive defense industrial sites. Iran has used the site to develop and manufacture explosive materials and advanced munitions, including drones and missiles,” the ISW report said, citing satellite imagery. “The Parchin complex also played a key role in the Iranian nuclear weapons program. The regime historically used the site for high explosive testing for nuclear weapons development.”
Satellite images provided to me by a source reveal that the Parchin military base, east of Tehran, was targeted overnight by the IAF. The image on the left depicts the site prior to the strike, while the post-strike image on the right indicates two areas affected by an attack. pic.twitter.com/Um2WbPh0Y6
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 26, 2024
The Israeli strike also targeted Iran’s missile and drone factories near Tehran. “The IDF also struck the Khojir military complex, which is tied to the Parchin facility and involved in the production of liquid- and solid-fueled missiles for the IRGC,” the report added. “Iran began constructing new buildings at the Khojir complex in August 2023 to support missile production. Many of the buildings are surrounded by large dirt berms, indicating the nearby presence of highly combustible materials.”
The ISW report noted that the “expansion of the Khojir complex would increase Iran’s capacity to send weapons to Russia, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.”
In recent years, Iran has been spending massively in building up its military production capacities for the country’s armed forces, its terrorist proxies, and friendly rogue regimes. “Iran has the Middle East’s largest missile arsenal and supplied missiles to Russia for use against Ukraine, and to Yemen’s Houthi rebels and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah,” Reuters noted Sunday.
Reuters on Sunday quoted U.S. defense experts confirming that “Israel struck buildings in Parchin, a massive military complex near Tehran.”
“Israel also hit Khojir (…) a sprawling missile production site near Tehran,” the news agency said, adding that that “was undergoing massive expansion.”
The Israeli operation appears to have diminished Iran’s missile production capabilities. The strikes may have “significantly hampered Iran’s ability to mass produce missiles,” Reuters reported, quoting an expert. Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles, including long-range balletic ones, in mid-April and early October.
The Israeli warplanes took out Iran’s advanced Russian-made air defense systems, making the regime’s nuclear weapons and terrorist assets vulnerable to any future Israeli airstrike. “The attack destroyed Iran’s most advanced air-defense systems, while delivering a setback to the country’s ballistic missile program, U.S. and Israeli officials said Saturday,” The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. “An Israeli official said that Iran had four batteries of S-300 antimissile batteries, the most advanced in Tehran’s air-defense arsenal, before Israel’s recent strike and that all of them were destroyed.”
Israeli military and government officials also reached a similar conclusion about the success of the strike, The Times of Israel reported Sunday:
[The] strikes targeted strategic military sites — specifically drone and ballistic missile manufacturing and launch sites, as well as air defense batteries. (…)
Israel’s airstrikes on Saturday crippled Tehran’s ability to produce long-range ballistic missiles, in a blow that will be hard and time-consuming to recover from, and rendered crucial energy facilities vulnerable to future attacks by destroying air defense batteries protecting them, according to multiple reports citing Israeli, American and Iranian officials, as well as satellite images analyzed by experts. (…)
A short while after the strikes on Saturday morning, the Israeli military said the operation had given the IAF “wider freedom of aerial action in Iran,” and that it had a broad bank of targets that it could hit in the future if required.
The independent assessment seems to confirm Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest statement about the strike. “Iran attacked Israel with hundreds of ballistic missiles and this attack failed,” the Israeli prime minister said Sunday. “We kept our promise. The air force attacked Iran and hit Iran’s defense capabilities and missile production.”
Israel ground troops, air forces continues counter-terrorism ops in southern Lebanon and in the Gaza Strip
After decisively hitting Iran, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) kept up the pressure on Hamas and Hezbollah, destroying terrorist targets in precision strikes in Gaza and Lebanon.
“Overnight, the IAF conducted precise intelligence-based strikes on weapons manufacturing and maintenance facilities and a weapons storage facility belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the Dahieh area, a key Hezbollah terrorist stronghold,” the IDF said Sunday. “Over the past day, the IAF eliminated approximately 70 Hezbollah terrorists and struck over 120 Hezbollah terror targets.”
The notable targets of the recent strikes were a Hezbollah commander and his deputy in southern Lebanon, who were directing terrorist attacks into northern Israel, “including launching anti-tank missiles toward Israeli civilians and IDF troops,” the IDF disclosed.
“On Friday, with the direction of IDF intelligence, the IAF struck and eliminated the terrorist Ahmed Jafar Maatouk, the commander of Hezbollah’s Bint Jbeil area,” The military announced Sunday. “A day later, directed by IDF intelligence, the IAF struck and eliminated his successor. Additionally, Hezbollah’s head of artillery in the Bint Jbeil area was eliminated in the strike.”
🔴 The Commander of Hezbollah’s Bint Jbeil Area, Ahmed Jafar Maatouk, was eliminated in an IAF strike.
A day later, the IAF also eliminated his successor and Hezbollah's head of artillery in the Bint Jbeil area.
These three terrorists directed and carried out numerous… pic.twitter.com/Hg8iasUA4X
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 27, 2024
The IDF continued the sweeping operation to wipe out Hamas in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza. “Simultaneously in the area of Jabaliya, IDF troops continued operational activity and eliminated over 40 terrorists over the past day,” the military announced Sunday. “During the operational activity, the troops dismantled terrorist infrastructure and located large quantities of military equipment.”
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dnc before nov 5:
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after nov 5:
israel will pay the price for this
It appears Democrats have gone all in on hating Jews.
its about time that long known fact was made public
just like them actually embracing socialism
which means they actually embrace communismnazis
Hitler himself made it quite clear that the main distinction between Nazis and Soviet communists was whether the aim of your socialism was independent nationalism or global evangelism..
whatever the painter said
we know what the realities of life are
government over the people
vs
people over the government
This is not a defense of 20th century Russia but everything I am about to say is easy to confirm
1. Here is some Russian propaganda of the 20th century
https://artfocusnow.com/discoveries/on-race-and-racism/#gallery-4
Somehow that seems like a much larger difference between proselytizers vs expansionists don’t you think? That is a disagreement on very fundamental philosophies.
2. Soviets hypocritically had an extremely stratified society with Stalin feasting like a stereotype Tsar while the peasants at the bottom lived in misery. What made that hypocritical is the entire state apparatus existed for class warfare as the central ideology.
Central ideology of nazism in case you forgot (which would explain how you could think Tucker isn’t nazi scum) is racism and a racial hierarchy placing Aryan Germans at the top with racial enemies to either be exterminated (Jews) racial inferiors to be exterminated (Romani) and racial inferiors to be partly exterminated partly enslaved (Slavs).
3. This isn’t to glorify Russia during the worst point in Russian history but the Russian communists educated the masses making a major issue out of eliminating the extreme levels of illiteracy that plagued Tsarist Russia. Nazi Germany set back German education by generations.
I could go on in major differences between the ideology but don’t speak of things you know nothing about.
Hitler made it clear he was willing to set back chemistry 100 years if it meant removing Jews, Hitler made it clear exterminating the Jew was a central tenet of Nazism, Hitler made it clear enslavement of the Slav was a central tenet and I could go on.
Mussolini was not a Nazi even though Nazis are fascists.
Soviets weren’t Nazis even though Nazi economics are based on socialism.
Why can’t communism be an evil on own merits without you pretending it was exactly the same ideology as nazism?
Easily disproven lies backfire.
“It appears Democrats have gone all in on hating Jews.”
a. Democrats hate Jews.
b. Hitler hated Jews.
c. Trump loves Jews.
d. Therefore, Trump is Hitler.
Something is wrong with the above equation, but for the life of me I can’t figure out what it is.
Iran is still talking trash, they have not had enough, They need further education.
Education is not enough. Evil must be punished.
Punishment IS education.
“In recent years, Iran has been spending massively in building up its military production capacities ”
Thanks go to President Obama and President Biden for funding this effort.
Israel needs to tell Iran that they need to call off hamas and hezbollah and have them surrender immediately or for every attack those groups do will be met with Israel hitting Iran again. Give them some skin in the game.
Sorry no. Israel needs to continue hitting Iran irregardless of their proxies actions. Hit them until they beg for terms. And hit them again. There is no surrender in the jihadists. How many that were at one time imprisoned by Israel for terroristic acts have been freed only to return to their jihad. Either imprisonment for life or execution. They are no better than murderous thugs using religion as a cover for their actions.
Go and study how Thmas Jefferson dealt with the mozziue hordes terrorsing US and other nations’shipping aling the north coas of Africa in the early 1800’s. then learn how HE deal with it.
He got their book and figured out what makes them tick. Then he hi hard fast, and continually right where their ticker was until they surrendered, uncinditionally. The Barbary Pirae war was ended quickly this way.
Iran and the rest are still mozzies.. the same set of “rules” is what makes them tick. Hit them in their “ticker’ hard fast and continually until they submit to unconditional surrender no terms.
Perhaps then the Mideast can turn to productive instead of destructive endeavours and the entire region will prosper.
MacArthur handled the Japan issue in exactly the same way. Consider how Japan were as they invaded and terrorised much of the Orient. Now look at where they were after their “education” which was sent by Special Delivery via Enola Gay in 1945. .
The U.S. and its allies should have taken out the Iranian Islamofascist/terrorist regime, decades ago. That this evil regime has been allowed to be a malignant global cancer for so long, causing so much death and destruction through its proxies, is a testament to the pervasiveness of a toxic melange of dhimmitude, stupidity, fecklessness and emasculation in western leadership.
Israel is incrementally doing what the west should have done, wholesale, a long, long time ago.
The Iranian regime is a paper tiger — it would be overthrown after a substantive series of attacks that crippled military assets and oil production. Let’s hope we’re seeing the beginning of the end of the Iranian Islamic revolution.
From a defense procurement standpoint, these strikes were good publicity for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighters, whatever upgrades the Israeli Air Force has made to them. Very impressive operation, all around, considering the flight distances involved, mid-air refueling coordination, etc.
I think the Israelis added a pork spice rub to the missiles
The IDF pilots, “Torah! Torah! Torah!”
sushi matzoballs
Woulda been a better joke about any country but Israel.
Only if you are from a country that could afford the F 35.
American equipment is so expensive it is a wonder anyone purchases it instead of license building obsolete Soviet things with modifications.
Everyone with common sense and a large enough budget was either already moving into the F 35 (despite the rocky start) or developing a domestic program to build something similar. Don’t expect Russia to lose any sales however because cash is king.
The Israeli attack pretty much destroyed the myth of the effectiveness of Russia’s air defense weaponry. If they keep their customers, that’s just more good news for our side.
That was grand, very enlightening.
The one nit pick I would make to that is you assume they could actually afford better.
Russian equipment is a lot cheaper than American equivalents.
To many countries it taking an F35 their likely opponents will never be able to afford (and so will never actually have) is a much better deal than no air defense at all, and likely to be useful against other third world countries with obsolete/backwards militaries.
John Smith: I was trying to keep it Kamala simple so you wouldn’t get confused.
I hope there’s more to come.
The precision of the attacks once again suggests that Israel has moles deep within the Iranian regime.
Whatever the recipe the IDF is using is working. Just don’t tell Joe Biden any of your plans; alternatively, tell Joe you’re doing the opposite.
With any amount of luck, we’ll have a new administration in the White House that does not fundamentally hate Jews, Judaism and Israel as the current one clearly and manifestly does.
My thought exactly. Let’s hope they have good intelligence on the Shia sympathizers in Iraq as well.
One knock-on effect that should not be discounted: Iran has been providing missiles and drones to Russia for use in the Ukraine war. Iran is not the only vendor, but to this point they’ve been able to manufacture and develop these weapons in relative safety. The Ukrainians can’t touch them.
But the Israelis can, and just did.
Makes me wonder if the Israelis and the Ukrainians have a little quiet discussion going…
In other words like a good ally Israel fought our war for us.
Ukraine is in no way “our war.”
Then Ukraine is conquered, Vladimir Putin corners the grain market and uses it to diplomatically isolate us and try to undermine American currency as the world reserve, American international credibility is shot down by the world seeing American guarantees are worthless, Poland and other NATO countries now border Russia which will be learning to fix the incompetence of the Russian military and to update military hardware to the 21st century, Russia pays off allies such as Iran greatly empowering Iran to continue piracy and terrorism, China is empowered as Russia helps out in the destruction of Taiwan………
Russia isn’t a place like Iran it doesn’t have a radicalized population.
Which is why instead of mobilization Vladimir Putin has hired North Koreans.
Do you think he isn’t paying something important to North Korea?
Lets hope that the Iranian people start to lose patience for their mullahcracy.
They do need a decent chance, with such they might avoid the pending disaster of Iran being ripped apart.
I fully agree
So long as the Mullahs have the backing of the Army, the people can get tired all they want.
That is why Iran’s military should have a lot of attention.
Now consider the implications for the arms that Iran is providing Russia.
Consider the implications of Russia not getting anymore Iranian weapons.
This strike appears to be a Desert Storm classic. The stealth F-35s went in with advanced HARM anti-radar missiles that took out the radars and then the F-15s brought in loads of air-to-ground weapons. One thing the Iraquis did not learn is to play cat and mouse with the invading planes. They turned on their radars and ran them constantly, and were toast. It seems that the Iranis did the same thing. HARMs love a good beam to home in on!