Video reportedly from Al-Wehda street or nearby last night. It appears bunker busters were used. They may have been targeting tunnels under the roads.
Screen shot from the video from what looks like a fighter jet targeting pod view on the street area. It appears you can see a bunker buster make entry on the middle street and on the street on the left a row of white dots can be seen from what could be bunker buster entry.
The video clip of the strike which may show bunker buster penetration
How bunker busters bombs work to strike underground tunnels & infrastructure targets
You can see they are bunker busters because of the deep penetration holes (1st and 2nd picture) in the road and the lack of collapse of the road compared to other munitions which detonate on the surface (3rd picture). The bombs penetrate 10-20 meters (4th picture animation).
Also notice how the damage is different to that of, for example, an impact of a munition on the surface causing blast burn marks on the road, an uneven hole in the tarmac/material and debris- for example the rocket impact in Netivot.
You can also see that the bomb hit the water/sewage system in some impacts but didn’t detonate as there is no massive crater or collapse there if the hundreds of kg of explosives did detonate- the bomb (likely GBU-27/28) kept going deeper as illustrated in this helpful reply.
🔰Brief introduction to some of the resources in use by Unit 9900 in the IDF and the data collection methods used by Israel and analysed by this unit in order to highlight underground infrastructure and insurgent centres of gravity embedded in both rural and urban areas.
Drones- Chariot of Fire: This is a hyperspectral imaging system in use by IDF MALE drones such as the Eitan. Hyperspectral imaging is collected via sensing through narrow spectral bands and the data is used in the classification or identification of properties of objects.
Hyperspectral imaging is used in MASINT. The identification of properties of certain materials allows for methods such as geologic mineral mapping, which can assist with the tracking of underground activity such as soil and dirt spoil from bunker and rocket launcher construction.
✅Quick thread on Israel’s air defence systems in the next war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israel currently operates:
🚀10 batteries of Iron Dome
🚀2 batteries of David’s Sling
🚀6 batteries of Patriot PAC-2
🚀2 batteries of Arrow 2
🚀1 battery of Arrow 3
Most of Hezbollah’s 150,000 rocket and missile arsenal consists of small and medium range rockets. Mainly Katyushas: 107mm, 122mm, & Falaq-1/2, Khaibar-1, as well as Fajr-3 and Fajr-5’s. Therefore Iron Dome will likely be doing most of the heavy lifting during the next conflict.
The issue is approx 4,000 rockets and missiles will be falling in Israel each day of the war (at least at the beginning until the IAF can destroy many launch sites and storage sites). Most of these rockets will fall in the range of Iron Dome.
Azerbaijani soldiers going round Karabakh beheading Armenians, destroying church’s and pillaging. Disgraceful and plenty of video & picture evidence for all of it.
#UPDATE: IDF releases video of evidence of precision-guided missile component production machines & Hezbollah operatives during media tour at El-Jnah facility in Beirut, Lebanon
#UPDATE: Infographic on the site machines & information on Hezbollah site manager
#UPDATE: IDF releases drone footage of vehicle departure from underground missile facility in Chouaifet area of Beirut, (second PGM site revealed) & arrival at Borj El Brajneh facility
#UPDATE: First video showing what appears to be the first combat use of an Israeli-made Azerbaijani-launched LORA tactical ballistic missile targeting a bridge along the Berdzor-Goris highway across the Hakari river, according to reports