🧵Today, Israeli media is reporting that the IDF operation to eliminate Assad’s military has so far led to a staggering 86% of the Syrian Air Defense Array being destroyed. What this means is that the path that posed a significant threat to Israeli aircraft is now wide open 👇
Following the IDF’s unprecedented attacks on the remainder of Assad’s military forces, the IDF has conducted an assessment and know believes that there is an opportunity to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. The IDF, in conjunction with the Mossad, is now carrying out what is described as a “preparation” process in order to present the political echelon with a viable plan for an attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities.
This process began when the Syrian Air Defense Array (SADA), which was considered to be amongst the most advanced/dense in the world (with modern Russian systems), was quietly but efficiently destroyed by the IDF over the past few days. SADA had fired hundreds of missiles at Israeli aircraft over the past few years and has been a massive issue for Israeli aircraft and missiles entering into Syrian airspace.
The IAF has put focus on two specific systems, the Russian SA-18 ‘Buk’ and the SA-22 ‘Pantsir’ which are both responsible for shooting down a number of Israeli missiles and munitions over Syria in the past few years. Since Assad’s fall, the IAF can now report that they have destroyed at least 80% of the SA-18 systems, and a whopping 86% of the SA-22 systems. In addition, 90% of the Syrian inventory of the MiG-29 and 80% of their Sukhoi-24 were also destroyed (representing 61% of the Syrian Air Force’s strike aircraft).
However, some missile arrays were damaged less, and the IDF estimates that some of them will still fall into rebel hands. However, the IAF has struck over 500 targets using over 1,800 munitions in the past few days, and these choices were deliberate. The systems targeted (and now destroyed) are the most advanced ones and ones that pose the most threat to Israeli strike aircraft using Syrian airspace to carry out their most important mission since 1948 – the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program.
Information courtesy of the excellent Doron Kadosh of IDF Radio.
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