My new piece, citing Chris Biggers' analysis, explains how Iran kept up its story that Israel didn't hit anything: they substituted a (completely different) radar for the one Israel struck to make it look like the S-300 battery at Natanz is still operational. economist.com/middle-east-an…

Iran's mock-up of the F-35 hangars at Nevatim airbase geolocated ~65km south of Shahrud google.com/maps?ll=35.797… it was used for target practice with missiles launched from Chabahar on 10 or 11 January 2024 sentinelshare.page.link/M3C8

Minigun-Armed Mojave Drone Now Blasting Targets At 6,000 Rounds Per Minute

This is the first time Minigun pods have been live-fired from a drone in this class and there are already plans to expand on the capability.

Story: twz.com/air/minigun-ar…

On IQDEX 2024 Iran brought a model of the Arman missile system, which was first shown under name Ababil at the Iranian exhibition in Russia at Army-2023. Variant of the missile with an OE seeker is now indicated on 26 km less range than standart INS+GNSS
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Satellite photos suggest #Iran air defense radar struck in Isfahan during apparent Israeli attack apnews.com/article/iran-i…

This is the first confirmed attack on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria since Feb. 4

Excellent analysis by Afshon Ostovar on Operation True Promise and what it means in the context of the wider Iranian-Israeli conflict.
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Israel abandoned plans for a much more extensive counterstrike on Iran after concerted diplomatic pressure from the US and other foreign allies and because the brunt of an Iranian assault on Israel soil had been thwarted
W:\Patrick Kingsley via The New York Times

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Today #Iran 's supreme leader met with military commanders thanking them for the attack on #Israel . He tellingly says, 'how many missiles were launched and how many of them hit their target is not the primary question, what really matters is that Iran demonstrated its will-power

#BREAKING exclusive: before and after the alleged Israeli attack on Iranian air defense system isfahan

He said the target was an air defense radar site near Isfahan that’s part of the protection of the #Natanz nuclear facility. The first assessment is that the strike took out the site, but assessment hasn’t been completed

#BREAKING 3 missiles were fired from Israeli fighter aircraft outside of #Iran during the attack tonight in a very limited strike, a senior U.S. official told ABC

It seems that some missiles were launched from the Israeli side after all. In neighboring Iraq, the remains of at least two unknown missiles have already been found this morning. One in the Latifiya area near Baghdad
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Unsupervised Policy Turducken Fabian Hinz Decker Eveleth Dr. Jeffrey Lewis Ankit Panda Following up in thread but those appear to be boosters for an air launch weapon; there are standard bomb rack suspension lugs on each. I don’t recall anyone using that attachment mechanism for ground launched missiles.

This video, viewed over 400,000 times, claims to show footage of an alleged retaliatory attack by Israel in Isfahan, Iran, today.

But the same video was posted yesterday, claiming to show missiles fired from Lebanon landing in northern Israel.

برنامهٔ #موشکی #ایران را با Fabian Hinz ، محقق IISS News ، در میان گذاشتم. او با برشمردن سلاح‌های استفاده‌شده در هدف قرار دادن #اسرائیل می‌گوید مشخص نیست در صورت درگیری نظامی ۲طرف، تهران چقدر بتواند توان تهاجمی خود را در استفاده از موشک‌ها افزایش دهد.

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