Israel's airstrike damages Iran's missile production, air defences



Three waves of strikes conducted by over 100 Israeli fighter jets, including the cutting edge F-35 have proved Israel has much greater freedom of air operations over Iran than was anticipated.

The Israel Times reports that the strikes disabled three Russian-made S-300 air-defence systems at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport and at the Malad missile base near the capital. This was in addition to a strike in April that had taken out an additional battery in the Isfahan Province.

The secretive Parchin base near Tehran, which was used in the past for research and development of nuclear weapons, as well as a factory that manufactures drones was also hit.

In the strikes at Falagh, Shaid Ghadiri and Abdol Fath missile manufacturing bases of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps between 12 to 20 planetary mixers used to make solid fuel used in long-range ballistic missiles were damaged, reports said. This will slow down production of Iran’s Khaybar and Qassem ballistic missiles. The Axios news site reported that Iran can’t produce the mixers on its own and must acquire them from China which will slow down the restoration of capability.

The Israeli strikes were carried out in response to an attack by Iran on October 1, during which approximately 200 missiles were fired at Israel, although the majority were intercepted by the country's air defences.

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