Israel strikes Iran missile production in Syrian mountain

 Yahoo:

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As four helicopters left an undisclosed Israeli airbase in the dead of night on September 8, the 100 elite commandos onboard braced themselves for a mission that would etch itself into the annals of Israeli military history.

Their destination was a mountain in the Masyaf area in western Syria, roughly 125 miles from Israel’s northern border.

The choppers carrying the troops from the Shaldag special forces unit flew at an unusually low altitude over the Mediterranean to evade the Assad regime’s air defences and radars as they crossed over Lebanon and into Syria.

At the same time, Israeli warplanes, navy missile ships and drones launched a major wave of strikes at the target – an Iranian missile manufacturing site cut into a large mountain.

As the elite troops landed on Syrian soil, the sounds and sparks of gunfire and explosions surrounded the troops.

They killed some 30 Syrian soldiers and guards before storming the underground facility which had been under Israeli intelligence’s watchful gaze since 2017.

Codenamed “Deep Layer” by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), the compound sits 70-130 metres underground and is almost impossible to destroy from the air.

It was a “flagship project” for Iran’s efforts to arm Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border, according to the IDF, which revealed the first footage of the operation on Thursday night.

At the time, Israel had not yet invaded southern Lebanon but was conducting airstrikes against Hezbollah as well as Iranian targets in Syria.

The horse-shoe-shaped facility included “advanced assembly lines” designed to manufacture hundreds of precision-guided and long-range missiles and short-range rockets every year.

It was not yet complete at the time of the raid, but was in the final stages of being declared operational by Tehran, the IDF said. The first missiles had been manufactured and rocket engines were already being mass-produced.

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The Israeli military continues to demonstrate it is one of the most effective in the world.  It has great intelligence operations and effective attacks on the enemy.  Iran has lost one of its assets as a result of the attack on the underground fortress.