At Least 9 Iranian Missiles Hit 2 Targeted Israeli Airbases - Reports

Sputnik News ^ | 4/15/24

[marshmallow]

MOSCOW, (Sputnik) - At least nine Iranian missiles have hit two of Israel's airbases during the recent attack, damaging infrastructure, ABC News reported on Sunday, citing an unnamed senior US official.

Five ballistic missiles struck Israel's Nevatim airbase, damaging a C-130 military transport aircraft, a runway and storage facilities, while four more missiles hit an Israeli airbase in the Negev desert but without any significant damage reported.

On Saturday night, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched over 300 drones and missiles at Israel in its first-ever direct attack on Israeli territory, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. The attack came in response to Israel's airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1.

[OldHarbor]

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury I submit to you Miss Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ

She is the daughter of Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, the then erstwhile Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States.

She testified before Congress, concealing her true identity, only her first name was used. She claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers taking babies out of incubators at a Kuwaiti hospital before looting the incubators and leaving the babies to die on the floor.

All lies , yet what a performance .

What an outrage, This means War !

Expect any and all governments to lie, you shouldn’t expect them not to lie. All, no exceptions.

Governments lie big and lie small .

[Owen]

It was space aliens. Someone has to point this out. The people have a right to know.

[knighthawk]

The Russians of course. After all they claimed to have the best military and planes that could rival the F-22 and the T-90 tank was the best in the world....

[MeanWestTexan]

Iran attacked in Soviet style.

They launched everything they have, old and new, on the belief that something will get through if they overwhelm air defenses with sheet quantity.

I’ve briefly been to that airbase. You could drop huge bombs on it and nothing significant would happen. It’s built to take nukes.

[MeanWestTexan]

Most of the drones were hit with F-16s using machine guns.

Very WWII V-1 warfare.

[Chainmail]

While some of you are dribbling impressions, ideas, suppositions - here are the salient points:

1. Iran struck at Israel proper for the first time in history.

2. Iran claims that the justification for this mass attack was that Israel allegedly attacked their diplomat facilities in Syria and killed a number of top Iranian officers there. At least one of those killed was involved in the top-level planning and orchestration of the October 7th atrocities.

3. This attack proves conclusively to the world that Iranian technology has advanced to the point that they can accurately target Israel directly from Iran, a range in excess of 900Km. This not a small thing.

4. The Israelis escaped serious harm because of a combination of their advanced antimissile technologies, support from us, the UK, France and Jordan.

5. This defense came at a cost: their stockpiles of antimissile systems have been reduced and now Iran knows it can hit and at some point, overwhelm Israeli defenses.

In my view, Israel has no choice but to attack and destroy all Iranian nuclear research, storage, and fabrication facilities - killing as many skilled scientists as they can in the process. They also must attack any ballistic missile development, fabrication and storage facilities or it is only a matter of a short while - thanks to Obama - until they are able to attack Israel with nuclear weapons at will - using a massive multi-direction assault first to overwhelm and exhaust their antimissile defenses.

[PLMerite]

[IMHO 99% of a small number is still an awesome success.]

Better than my food-to-mouth average.

[icclearly]

They hit 99% of the ones they aimed for. Ones that weren’t going to hit anything didn’t need to be targeted.

They also forced Israel to shoot up to a billion dollars, shooting down a few hundred $5000 drones.

Question: Iran is spending a few million to launch mostly cheap drones before sending over the kill shots, while Israel is spending billions. How many of these volleys can Israel sustain?

Answer: Not many -- just like the Ukies

It's called war of attrition. He who has the most bullets wins.

[cowboyusa]

They got 99 percent, loads better than Ukraine.

[ansel12]

“”””shooting down a few hundred $5000 drones.””””

There was more than just the 170 or so drones.
There was also 30 cruise missiles, and at least 110 ballistic missiles.

[icclearly]

There was also 30 cruise missiles, and at least 110 ballistic missiles.

Says who?

[ansel12]

Lol, OK, you want it to be all $5,000 drones so in your world, so it will be.

[ansel12]

Thanks for that post and your view.

[PLMerite]

[How many of these volleys can Israel sustain?]

Until Israel demonstrates that it can do a better job with their ballistic missiles? I don't know.

Methinks there will be some mysterious deaths and "work accidents" in the meantime.

[icclearly]

Lol, OK, you want it to be all $5,000 drones so in your world, so it will be.

Okay. You seem to be so good with numbers. Let's take a closer look at the back of the envelope numbers.

1. 99% shot down. 1% got through = 900 airborne devices from Iran. Average cost per device = $250,000
2. Your quainty numbers for Iran devices. 310 devices
3. Average cost per antimissile device for Israel: $1,500,000 (a well-used number for defense intercept missiles. Patriots are $4,000,000 each). Two antimissiles to shoot down one incoming.
4. Let's round up your number to adjust for 1. above to 400 devices from Iran.
5. Israel/US/UK/Jordon shot roughly 800 devices (400 X 2) at a cost of $1,500,00 each
6. Iran spent: $100,000,000 (a small part of the $4,000,000,000 in cash we shipped to them)
7. Israel spent a whopping $1,200,000,000!

Israel spent 12 times Iran to stop the 400 devices!

Tell me again, who came out ahead.

Tell me again, how long Israel/US/UK can continue this while we scour the world for missiles and bullets??

The so-called mightiest nations in the world can't even stop a bunch of turban-head camel jocks from stopping our ships with missiles. Pray to tell; please explain how we're winning.

Sorry, I don't get it.

You can believe the deep state, US media, and Israel if you wish.

[ansel12]

“”””shooting down a few hundred $5000 drones.””””

There was more than just the 170 or so drones.
There was also 30 cruise missiles, and at least 110 ballistic missiles.

In your own nutty way I think you have backed off of your original lie.

[sauropod]

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[DAC21]

“Did Israel let those missiles thru so Iran could claim victory?”

Seems I have read in the past that Israel’s tracking system on there Iron Dome / Arrow / David’s Sling systems (maybe not all three?) Can determine trajectory of the incoming Missiles and determine if it will hit anything pertinent. Their systems may not launch if it’s determined the enemy’s missile will hit a pile of rocks. At least I believe I recall reading this. One would think the airbases are sprawling and away from population centers. So some of those missiles could have been allowed to hit the ground??