The damage to Shahroud is extensive
More or less every building in the solid motor production lines was damaged, many destroyed. Several mixing & casting buildings, along with what might be non-destructive testing & premix buildings.
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More strikes at Kashan
Tunnel entrances hit, along with more support buildings. Looks like the base has been pretty extensively damaged.
Thanks as always to our friends @planet.com for the imagery.
Shiraz north missile base struck.
Tunnel entrances extensively targeted, and scorch marks along the roads indicate damaged vehicles, probably more TEL plinking. No real damage to support buildings.
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Confirmed first damage to the Iranian solid propellant missile plant at Shahroud
Casting and mixing buildings were damaged, along with parts of what the IDF alleges is a warhead production line.
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More damage at Garmdareh
Lots of support buildings hit, with some big explosions. More scorch marks indicative of TEL plinking.
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More damage to Shiraz west
Two tunnel entrances attacked, covers destroyed.
Additional support buildings destroyed as well.
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Lar missile base struck
Ejecta from targeted tunnel entrances visible. Many support buildings damaged or destroyed. Scorch marks in the roads are further evidence the TEL plinking campaign continues
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Worth noting that according to that DEFA article citing a biography of Tehrani Moghaddam, the silo project was conducted by the commander of the IRGC-AF Engineering Department, Ali Hajizadeh
Other aboveground infrastructure for mobile launchers at the base was hit as well. Checkout buildings and more tunnel entrances targeted.
This base got a lot of bunker buster attention.
Wondering why Iran didn't build more silos? There are many reasons, but one is silos are much more technically complex than people often believe. Here is an Iranian article discussing the difficulties they had in making their first silos: dnws.ir/003CCU
First, Jam is one of the few Iranian missile bases with silos. The tunnel entrances to those silos have been destroyed, thought the portals themselves are still open. Doesn't preclude them being damaged, I just can't see it.
More craters on roads too. More TEL plinking?
Our friends @planet.com got an excellent image of the missile base at Jam
Lots of damage across the site, but a few things are worth looking at closer
We are watching in real time the destruction of Iranian ballistic missile capabilities. Two things can be true at the same time. This remains an incredibly challenging thing for pilots to do. It is also being done incredibly well.
The explosions tell only part of the story. The real contest in this war is unfolding in missile factories, command rooms, and underground tunnels. (Members Only)
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A before photo of the site with the possible S-300 launcher:
One of the Iranian air defense sites where I spotted S-300 launchers before the war was hit hard.
Emplacements for radars and SAM launchers were struck, and many support buildings destroyed.
Thanks to our friends at Planet Labs for the imagery.
Before photo of the air defense site:
Shortly before the war I looked at Iranian air defenses & found some weird bedfellows at the former S-300 site in Isfahan: A SA-5 & an Iranian domestic SAM launcher.
I joked about not wanting to find out how well this jank-AD integration would be. Well, we did find out. The answer: not well at all.
Yazd missile base hit
Tunnel entrances targeted. Support buildings destroyed. Craters along the road suggest efforts at TEL plinking, but its hard to say whether they were successful.
Thanks as always to our friends at Planet Labs
Khorgu was hit again. This time it looks like the tunnel entrances were targeted.
Unclear whether ground-penetrating munitions were used, but the site is certainly more damaged now. Evidence of TEL plinking as well from scorch marks.
Thanks to our friends at Planet Labs for the images
This site produces solid propellant motors and performs final assembly for many Iranian solid propellant missiles. The IDF has also claimed the site produces missile guidance and electronics.
Better images of the Shahid Bakeri solid propellant plant show extensive damage.
Thanks to our friends at Planet Labs for the imagery.
More damage at Khojir
The new solid propellant production line to the east was extensively damaged. Buildings housing planetary mixers and casting buildings were destroyed. A large number of uncertain function buildings hit too
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More TEL plinking at Isfahan north
At least two more launchers caught out. One spilled propellant along a field, and the other left a large scorch mark on an interior road in the base.
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Missile base at Bid Kaneh hit
Tunnel entrances appeared to have been hit with bunker busters. Support and checkout buildings destroyed as well. Scattered craters suggest some TEL plinking happening too.
Thanks to our friends at Planet Labs for the imagery.
Again, only one Arrow-3 launch over the night of March 5, this time from Tel Aviv.
Brings the total Arrow-3s recorded since the war started to 16. That is still below the number used during the first night of the 12-Day War alone
Full video here
More remarkable shots of the Iranian cluster munitions warhead courtesy of Zaid M. Al-Abbadi
Experts from the @fpri.bsky.social analyze the latest military developments from the Third Gulf War
@slair.bsky.social @dexeve.bsky.social @michaelbpetersen.bsky.social @salisbot.bsky.social & Guy Plopsky
www.fpri.org/article/2026...
Full video here, thanks to the phenomenal Zaid M. Al-Abbadi
