Israeli commandos destroy Iranian missile factory in Syria

 Red State:

A daring Israeli commando raid deep into Bashar Assad's Syria in early September not only destroyed an Iranian factory producing missiles for Hezbollah to shoot into Israel, it may have been a test of a concept that puts all of Iran's nuclear facilities at risk.

On the night of September 8-9, a 120-man unit of elite Israeli Air Force Shaldag commandos in CH-53 attacked the underground factory in the Masyaf area of Syria, west of Hama, using a combination of landing and fast roping.
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The site lies more than 125 miles north of the Israeli border and some 30 miles from Syria’s western coastline. The CH-53s flew in from the Mediterranean to evade Syria's air defense system; as the CH-53 has a range of about 430 miles, aerial refueling was required. The video is a 3-D model of the target site and gives perspective to the scope of the mission and the difficulties accomplishing it.

Because the last Iranian missile factory in Syria was smashed flat by an Israeli airstrike in 2017, the Iranians built this one to be bombproof.
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The Israeli commandos landed and broke through the "bombproof" entrance and destroyed the facility.  Israel appears able to thwart Iran's war machine at will.  The Israelis are constantly outsmarting the Iranian forces

See also:

Weakened Iran May Be Forced to Cut Deal With Trump

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