For underground bunkers, the GBU-28 is the munition of choice.
The F-15I Ra'am is certainly capable of employing GBU-28s.
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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I thought Russia didn’t have any deviants? Humm
Israel is claiming, through various intel bits, that Nezie boy is in pieces.
“Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been transferred to a secure location inside the country with heightened security measures in place, two regional officials briefed by Tehran told Reuters.
The sources said Iran was in constant contact with Lebanon’s Hezbollah and other regional proxy groups to determine the next step after Israel announced that it had killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in a strike on south Beirut on Friday.”
80 Bombs.
“Israel Tracked Nasrallah for Months Before Assassination, Officials Say”
“Israeli leaders had been aware of Hassan Nasrallah’s whereabouts for months and decided to strike him this past week because they believed they had only a short window of opportunity before the Hezbollah leader would disappear to a different location, according to three senior Israeli defense officials.
Two of the officials said that more than 80 bombs were dropped over a period of several minutes to kill him. They did not confirm the weight or make of the bombs.
Hezbollah operatives found and identified Mr. Nasrallah’s body early Saturday, along with that of a top Hezbollah military commander, Ali Karaki, according to the officials, who cited intelligence obtained from inside Lebanon. All three officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.”
“As Hezbollah Pursued a Limited War, Israel Went for a Knockout”
“Weeks after Hamas launched the surprise attack on Israel that started the Gaza war last October, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, laid out his group’s approach to the war.
Speaking by video link from a secret location, he said that Hezbollah sought to strike a balance between launching cross-border attacks on Israel in support of Hamas and avoiding an all-out war.
“Some in Lebanon say that we are taking a risk,” he said. “But this risk is part of a beneficial, correct calculation.”
That calculation has failed dramatically over the last two weeks, as Israel has launched an escalating series of attacks on the group. The campaign has already incapacitated thousands of rank-and-file Hezbollah members by blowing up their electronic devices and killed many of the group’s senior leaders in airstrikes.”
For underground bunkers, the GBU-28 is the munition of choice.
The F-15I Ra'am is certainly capable of employing GBU-28s.
Very unfortunate.
“Before the Ukrainian attack on the 23rd Arsenal, it had received a total of 94 railcars with SAMs from the 1562nd Anti-aircraft Repair and Technical Base in Belarus
According to @belzhd_live, this was the largest transfer of munitions from Belarus to Russia in ‘24”
https://x.com/The_Lookout_N/status/1839729892768002135
“Additional transfers were reportedly planned but have been put on hold due to the Ukrainian strikes.”
https://x.com/The_Lookout_N/status/1839729896228000045
Only 38 days until Trump ends this war (”24 hours after election day”).
Its an ‘Easy Deal’.
“The Israeli army says it has now eliminated all but one of Hezbollah’s top eleven commanders in the months since Oct 8, when Hezbollah started attacking Israel. Aside from Nasrallah it has killed his four deputies - the commander of the Southern Force, head of the Missiles and Rockets Force, head of the Strategic Unit and commander of the elite Radwan unit.
More lower-ranking commanders were killed in recent months but the IDF declined to say how much of the overall command structure this represents.”
“as my colleagues have noted, Hezbollah has for now been firing fewer rockets at Israel. The question is whether that’s deliberate or because Israel has taken out a chunk of its capacity.”
“My colleague Galit Altstein points out at a marked decline in the number of rockets fired by Hezbollah in the wake of Friday’s strikes.
The militant group is estimated to have launched about 100 missiles and rockets into Israel since last night. In comparison, hundreds of projectiles were generally reported by Israeli authorities to be launched from inside Lebanon on a daily basis. According to the latest data from the IDF, Hezbollah had fired around 9,000 rockets and missiles since Oct. 8.”
“Still, many analysts have said they’re surprised the rocket and missile fire from Hezbollah on Israel over the past week hasn’t been more intense, given the extent of the Israeli attacks on the Hezbollah leadership and positions in southern Lebanon, the Bekaa region and Beirut.
One thought is Israel has weakened its military might so much it’s not able to launch a massive barrage. Another is that it’s been waiting to use most of arsenal until or unless Israel sends ground troops into Lebanon — something that Israel has said is an option but also one it is seeking to avoid.”
“Bipartisan report urges rethink of America’s Russia strategy”
“The bipartisan committee charged with supporting democracy and human rights in post-Soviet states is pushing for the United States to dump the post-Cold War status quo in its relations with Russia and label Moscow as a “persistent” threat to global security.
The report from the Helsinki Commission, which was obtained by The Hill ahead of publication, argues that Washington must reframe its thinking in how it approaches Russia, as it has with China over the past few years, and allocate resources accordingly.
A priority focus of the report’s strategy is to ensure Ukraine’s victory in its defensive war against Russia, calling for “massive” military and humanitarian assistance for Kyiv and allowing Ukraine’s armed forces to strike deep into Russia with U.S. provided weapons.
The report’s policy proposals go further than the Biden administration’s commitments to Ukraine and clash with positions held by former President Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, and his allies in Congress.
Trump has long argued the U.S. is spending too much on European security. And he is campaigning on making a deal between Ukraine and Russia through direct negotiations with their leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.
However, the Helsinki committee’s Republican chair, Rep. Joe Wilson (S.C.), dismissed the potential of Trump striking a deal with Putin.
“No question to me that Donald Trump is going to see the insincerity of war criminal Putin,” Wilson told The Hill in a brief conversation about the report.
“Putin is not anybody that you can reach an agreement with, that would be substantive, that would hold.””
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4904188-us-russia-relations-helsinki-report/
Those who had the compulsion to watch the various video feeds saw hours and hours of monstrous secondary explosions and rocket or missile cookoffs know that intentional launches are a tiny percent of expended Hezbollah munitions.
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