2024-04-18 21:11:07
A senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said today that the country’s most advanced missiles were not used in Iran’s first-ever direct attack on Israel, DPA reported.
“We used old weapons with minimal power against the Zionist enemy,” said Brigadier General Amir Ali Hadjizadeh, commander of the aerospace force.
A year ago, for example, KGIR presented a fourth version of its Khoramshar medium-range missile, which can be equipped with a 1.5-ton warhead. Another non-deployed missile, the Sejil, is said to be capable of reaching Israel in about seven minutes.
Iran often presents new types of weapons, but claims about their capabilities often cannot be independently verified by experts, BTA reported.
Iranian state media said the Emad and Khaibar Shekan medium-range missiles were used in the attack on Israel. The Paveh cruise missile was also launched.
The missile strikes were accompanied by swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles of the same type used by Russia in its war against Ukraine – Shahed, DPA notes.
With the help of its allies, the Israeli armed forces managed to intercept almost all of the hundreds of drones and missiles fired by Iran.
Iran said the attack was in retaliation for the killing of two Iranian generals in an Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus earlier this month.