🎯 IAF STRIKES IRANIAN NAVY AS AIR CAMPAIGN DEGRADES MISSILE LAUNCHERS AND AIR DEFENSES, WHILE HEZBOLLAH AND IRAN CONTINUE TO ATTACK ISRAEL
🎦 IAF releases footage from strikes across Iran: The material shows strikes on an underground ballistic missile launch and storage facility, active missile launchers, and a Basij headquarters before and after it was struck.
🎯 IAF sustains large-scale strike campaign across Iran: The Air Force has dropped more than 12,000 bombs in over 8,500 strikes on regime targets, including 3,600 munitions used in Tehran alone.
🔹 Extended air operations enable continuous targeting of missile threats: Fighter jets have carried out 5,700 sorties, including over 540 to central and western Iran and 50 to the east, using methods that allow longer missions without refueling.
🎯 “Metro sorties” enable rapid real-time targeting: Drones and fighter jets loiter before striking missile launchers, Iranian soldiers, and other targets identified in real time, including the elimination of Iran’s intelligence minister, Esmaeil Khatib, in Tehran yesterday.
🎯 Air defense network heavily degraded: The military assesses around 85% of Iran’s air defense and detection systems have been destroyed, including more than 300 related targets such as launchers and radars.
🔹 Advanced and legacy systems significantly damaged: The IAF assesses 92% of advanced systems, about 80% of older systems and radars, and 75% of decentralized tracking systems have been destroyed or disabled.
🎯 Ballistic missile launcher network reduced: Around 60% of Iran’s estimated 470 launchers have been destroyed or disabled, including about 200 destroyed and another 80 rendered non-operational after strikes on tunnel infrastructure.
🔹 IAF continues targeting remaining launchers: Approximately 200 launchers are believed to remain as Iran continues missile fire, with over 350 launched so far and recent salvos slowing to 10 to 20 missiles per day.
⚠️ Home Front Command updates civilian guidelines effective March 22: Multiple regions will move from “Limited Activity” to “Partial Activity,” allowing education, gatherings, and workplaces to operate where protected spaces are accessible within required timeframes.
⚠️ IAF selectively intercepts cluster submunitions to conserve interceptors: Officials say bomblets pose limited risk to civilians in protected spaces, though they can cause casualties and damage outside shelters and may leave unexploded hazards.
🚨 Hezbollah rocket attack on Kiryat Shmona injures four: Magen David Adom reports one man in serious condition, one woman in moderate condition, and two others lightly injured, all evacuated to hospital.
🚨 Interceptor fragments strike Haifa refinery area during Iranian attack: The military says impacts were caused by falling fragments after interception, with no casualties and no significant infrastructure damage reported.
🔹 Power outages reported and largely restored in Haifa: Energy Minister Eli Cohen said most electricity has been restored following localized disruptions.
🔹 Search and rescue forces operating at impact sites: Home Front Command teams are assisting civilians, and residents are urged to follow alert instructions.
💥 IAF strikes Iranian Navy assets in the Caspian Sea: Fighter jets hit port and base facilities in Bandar Anzali, destroying a corvette, four missile boats, additional vessels, a port command center, and shipyard infrastructure.
🔹 Strike aimed at degrading Iranian naval capabilities: The targeted vessels were equipped with surveillance and anti-aircraft systems that could threaten Israeli aircraft operating over Iran.
🔹 Operation planned on short notice with joint intelligence coordination: Naval Intelligence, Military Intelligence, and the Air Force worked together to locate and strike the targets, marking the first IDF strike in this region of Iran.
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