Post-attack satellite imagery of Israel’s Nevatim Air Base following Iran’s Oct. 1 missile barrage shows that Iran did accomplish numerous hits during its attack on Israel last week. According to Decker Eveleth, a strategic forces analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), a U.S. nonprofit research and analysis organization, these reveal “at least 33 likely impact craters, with likely more impacts currently obscured by clouds.” The total number of impacts is therefore probably closer to 40, Eveleth contends, reported The War Zone. In his analysis of what the latest missile barrage against Nevatim Air Base actually achieved, Eveleth concludes that the answer is “not much.”
“The main takeaway, however, is that Iran has demonstrated that it can strike Israel with numerous ballistic missiles,” The War Zone, seeing the bigger picture, concludes. “Were the same missiles to have targeted civilian areas, the loss of life could have been very severe. If they were turned against broad area infrastructure targets, the damage could also be very problematic.”
