Satellite photos show the destruction of the fuel plants in Parchin and Khojir: they were inaugurated only three years ago, with the aim of multiplying the range of the Revolutionary Guard’s missiles. Images from space also highlight the damage to the remote-controlled aircraft factory in Shamsabad, where the Shahed sold to the Russians and Yemeni Houthis are assembled
Now Iran has no air defense. All radars that enable them to launch anti-aircraft missiles and direct interceptors are gone. And this means that the Ayatollahs will have to think twice before launching another attack against Israel: they still have a sword – with reserves of ballistic missiles, but they do not have a shield to protect themselves. “The Iranians remained completely helpless – declared former general Yisrael Ziv – as Israel bombarded their strategic bases wherever they wanted.” This is the main result of Operation Days of Repentance, perhaps the most massive carried out by the Israeli Defense Forces in their entire history. In at least two waves of attacks, over a hundred F35, F16 and F15 aircraft attacked the most important military installations, as well as factories that produce missiles and drones.
Details are still shrouded in mystery and there are few revelations. It cannot be ruled out that some of the anti-aircraft control centers were blocked earlier by a cyberattack, activating computer viruses introduced weeks or months ago into the computers of the command posts.
Then at X, several Gulfstream bireactors, identical to those used for VIP trips, began firing electromagnetic pulses at Iranian radars and antennas: a demonstration of how advanced the Israel Defense Forces’ electronic warfare capabilities are. . Within minutes, the opponents’ screens went dark. The complete isolation broke the network of the Iranian armed forces and the Revolutionary Guards: as far as is known, not a single interceptor was downed.
Then in X, within five minutes, the “birds of prey” that had crossed Syria and Iraq arrived. Israeli fighter-bombers had avoided in-flight refueling from colossal four-jet tankers, which might have betrayed the attackers’ position. Instead, they may have used an ancient technique called “buddy-buddy”, in which one fighter jet supplies the others, thus maintaining a profile difficult to detect by radar. The first to strike were the F35s, the famous stealth fighters built to leave a minimal footprint. But both they and the F15 and F16 launched their missiles, remaining outside Iranian borders, as had happened in the previous attack on April 18.
Even in the arsenal developed by the Israeli Air Force to deal with the Ayatollahs there is a veil of confidentiality: many assume that special instruments have been created to deal with the fortified underground structures of the Pasdarans. Safe is the Rocks rocket, which has been in service for five years and almost nothing has been revealed about its performance. It has an autonomous guidance system that orients it to targets and a greatly expanded range of action: aircraft can drop it and leave before the enemy spots it.
The first echelon of gunners focused on eliminating radar antennas and missile batteries in order to finally disable the Iranian shield. All of the Russian S300 anti-aircraft batteries and even the new S400s that Putin delivered in August, but still unused, have been decommissioned: now there is no longer any obstacle to attacks from the sky. As IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Hagari declared: “Now Israel has greater freedom of action even inside Iran.” The second wave would hit ballistic missile factories and depots. These are the bases that contributed to the October 1 attack and that materialize the “power projection” of the “Axis of Resistance” led by Tehran: the equipment that allows the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Yemeni Houthis to threaten Tel Aviv, Haifa and other Israeli cities.
Satellite photos show the destruction of the fuel plants in Parchin and Khojir: they were inaugurated only three years ago, with the aim of multiplying the range of the Revolutionary Guard’s missiles. Images from space also highlight damage to the remote-controlled aircraft factory in Shamsabad, where the Shahed sold to the Russians and the Yemeni Houthis have been assembled. In general, this is a blow that can set back the strategic plans of the ayatollahs for many years.
