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The ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah has reached an explosive point. Iran has launched the biggest attack on Israel so far. Around 10 pm on Tuesday night, Iran fired about 200 missiles one after the other at Israel. These attacks continued for about 30 minutes. Iran’s missiles kept raining on the Israeli sky. Israel’s Iron Dome system destroyed some missiles in the sky, while some missiles were destroyed by the American destroyers USS Cole and USS Bulkeley deployed in the Mediterranean Sea. Despite this, Iran claimed that its missiles had targeted three Israeli airbases and the Mossad headquarters.
Israel gets hit by Iran’s missiles
Iran’s agency IRGC has claimed that 90 percent of its missiles have fallen on their correct targets in Israel. The distance between Iran and Israel is about 2100 km and to reach Israel from Iran one has to cross two countries, Iraq and Jordan. In such a situation, discussions have intensified about how advanced and modern Iran’s missile capability is, due to which it is showing an eye to Western countries including Israel.
This is how the war started
This war started after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 last year. After this Israel declared war against Hamas. Till now it has almost completely destroyed the infrastructure of Hamas and its leadership, but this war is not limited only to Israel and Hamas. Israel has killed Hezbollah Chief Narsallah by attacking in Lebanon. Israeli army is entering Lebanon and carrying out operation. Israel is also targeting Houthi rebels in Yemen. Now after Iran fired missiles at Israel, this war has started on four fronts.
How powerful are Iran’s missiles?
Iran has named this attack ‘Operation True Promise 2’. Iran has used ballistic hypersonic missile to attack Israel. So let us tell you which missiles Iran has used for the attack and how powerful they are and what is their lethality –
- Sejil Missile- Iran’s biggest strength is its ballistic missiles. According to a report by the US Intelligence Directorate, Iran is the country in the entire Middle East which has the most ballistic missiles. Iran has a missile named ‘Sejil’ which can go up to 2500 kilometers at a speed of 17000 kilometers per hour. Similarly, the range of ‘Kheibar’ missile is 2000 kilometers. ‘Haj Qasem’ can also go up to a range of 1400 kilometers.
- Cruise missile- Iran also has cruise missiles like the KH-55 and it is claimed that it is equipped with nuclear capability. It can carry nuclear weapons with itself up to 3000 kilometers.
- Hypersonic missile- The hypersonic missiles with which Iran has attacked Israel this time were presented to the world only in June last year. They move 5 times faster than the speed of sound and are very difficult to intercept. Apart from this, Iran is the largest producer of drones in the entire Middle East. He has a drone named Mohajer-10 which can go up to 2 thousand kilometers and carry weapons weighing 200 kg.
- Nuclear weapons- It is also claimed that Iran has nuclear weapons. However, Iran has never accepted it openly nor has it been confirmed.
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