Exciting secrets.. This is how Israel struck a missile factory near Lebanon!
The Israeli newspaper Maariv published a new report in which it talked about the Israeli operation that targeted a missile manufacturing plant in Syria, its dimensions and effects.
The report he translated says: Lebanon24 The Iranians and Syrians built the factory to produce and assemble precision missiles that can reach a distance of more than 300 kilometers with great accuracy in hitting the target. He added: On the night of September 8 and 9 of last year, elite fighters from the Israeli Shildag unit were able to raid the facility located on More than 200 km from the Israeli border inside Syria and its destruction.
The report reveals that operational preparations for the operation lasted for several months, explaining that dozens of aircraft operated in the air during the operation, and added: In the end, all the fighters returned safely and the strategic missile production facility of the Iranian axis countries in the region was blown up.
The report stated that Iran invested a lot of resources to build the Shiite axis, and at the heart of the preparations to strike Israel, Hezbollah was constantly arming itself with missiles that would cause damage to the energy infrastructure in Israel in addition to causing serious damage deep inside Israel. It added: In Iran, They realized that delivering missiles produced on their territory faced many difficulties, while Israel, time after time, destroyed shipments of supplies.
The report says that Iran decided to build a huge underground production facility in Syrian territory, a short distance from the border with Lebanon, and added: In September 2017, the transfer of missile engine systems to Syria was monitored in Israel, and the Israeli Air Force attacked the shipments. The understanding in Israel was that the Iranians were working on building factories to assemble missiles, and at the end of 2017, intelligence services determined that in a deep valley, two kilometers from the city of Masyaf, a huge missile production plant had been built deep under the mountain, and it was supposed The factory must be protected from air strikes.
He added: There was a rocky mountain between 70 and 150 meters high above the factory roof, so it is doubtful that there was a bomb capable of penetrating the mountain at such a depth. After 4 years of starting quarry work, in 2021, the factory construction work was completed. The station was given the secret title Deep Layer by the Israeli security establishment. After construction on the mountain was completed, the phase of introducing means of production began. The means insertion center had explosive material mixing systems as well as rocket fuel handling systems. Also, the factory was supposed to produce 4 types of precision missiles of the models: M302 with a flight capacity of 130 km, the M220 missile with a flight capacity of 70 km, and the M600 missile with a flight capacity of 250 to 300 km, as well as short-range missiles with a range of up to 20 to 40 km. Kilometers.
He continued: The defense establishment estimated that the production capacity of the facility would range between 150 and 300 missiles each year, and the area where the factory was established was the protected area in Syria, and there are dozens of anti-aircraft missile batteries and dozens of radar systems nearby.
He continued: The Air Force Commander, Major General Tomer Bar, presented to Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy, and then to the limited government, the plan of action to attack the missile factory, whose operational capabilities the Shildag unit had developed years ago to penetrate underground complexes, and among the authors of the combat theory who began to prepare a feasibility. The late Major Yitzhar Hoffman, who was killed in the battles in the Gaza Strip a few months before the operation was carried out.
The report says that the process of attacking the missile complex took two and a half hours, as 300 kilograms of explosives were lowered into the facility, while some of the explosives were placed in the mixers and others in the production lines, and there was approximately another ton of explosives in the factory, and he added: So when The explosion occurred, shaking the ground and creating an earthquake effect. During the operation, the Syrian army tried to send hundreds of soldiers to protect the facility. At that time, dozens were killed as a result of the air force bombing, and others did not have enough time to approach the area until the end of the operation.
For his part, Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy said about the raid on the missile facility in Syria: The work of the Shildag unit deep in Syria joins a series of bold operations carried out by the Israeli army in recent months from the Gaza Strip to the southern suburbs of Beirut to Iran with the aim of Destroying the missile production capabilities of the Iranian axis.
Source:
Translation of Lebanon 24
