#UPDATE: Houthis say they fired multiple ballistic missiles and 25 drones against military and vital targets in Riyadh, Jeddah, Taif, Jizan, Najran and Asir in Saudi Arabia.
-6 Samad-3 drones and a number of Zulfiqar ballistic missiles (Iranian-made Qiam) targeted the Ministry of Defense, King Khalid Airport and other military targets in Riyadh.
-6 Samad-2 and Samad-3 drones targeted King Fahd Air Base in Taif and Aramco in Jeddah
-5 drones of the Sammad 1 and Samad 2 types targeted military sites in the regions of Abha, Jizan and Asir
-8 Qasef 2K drones and a large number of ballistic missiles targeted sensitive and important sites in Abha, Jizan and Najran
A ballistic missile was confirmed intercepted over Riyadh and another over Khamis Mushait, and 2 drones were intercepted from Yemen. That leaves other ballistic missiles and 23 drones unaccounted for. Many may have fallen short or failed, but likely some got through and hit.
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“The issues of covert and operational redeployment of troops will be considered at an operational mobilization meeting (OMS) with the command staff of the Southern Military District (YuVO).”
“The OMS under the leadership of the commander of the military district, General of the Army Alexander Dvornikov, will for the first time be held with the participation of commanders of formations and military units up to and including regiment commanders.”
I just sat for hours and read about China’s military expansion: from the South China Sea, to missiles, to Navy expansion, to western airbase developments, stealth jets production rates, to ground forces modernisation etc. And I must say we’re most definitely totally fucked.
Video of three times Hamas militants hid in ambulances in Gaza, first one is filmed from a cameraman on the ground during street fighting, two other times from drones and in another instance Hamas militants run towards civilians and the IDF has to abort
Here Hamas launches artillery rockets from the “Abu Nur” school
Here Hamas fires rockets from a Gazan UNRWA school
One of the more important implications for Hezbollah to learn from this latest conflict with Gaza is that Israel has the ability to locate its underground tunnel and bunker cities and destroy them, as seen with the militants Metro in Gaza. timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-has-…
Another point is “the IDF is using a new method to rapidly detect and destroy multi-barrel rocket launchers in Gaza. The innovative technique was developed in the past week of fighting by intelligence experts”- this too will have implications for Hezbollah israelradar.com/idf-new-method…
Hezbollah also use tunnels, their air defences are far less advanced than Syria's which the IAF defeats every other week and most Israeli air bases are far from Lebanon in the south of Israel and likely will take priority for air defence in the next war.
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
🔰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.