Illustrative image. (Israeli Air Force)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on March 19 announced that it carried out a series of strikes at the Iranian port city of Bandar Anzal and in the Caspian Sea over the past day, destroying several vessels of the Iranian Navy, as well as naval infrastructure
In a statement, the military said that the strikes destroyed an Iranian Navy corvette, four missile boats, and several auxiliary ships and guard boats, along with a command center and a shipyard.
Some of the vessels were located at the port, while others were out at sea, according to the IDF, which noted that the vessels were targeted to cause a “blow” to the Iranian military, despite the fact that they do not pose a direct threat to Israel from the Caspian Sea.
The military added that the missile boats have anti-aircraft capabilities and could pose a threat to Israeli aircraft operating over Iran, as well as anti-submarine capabilities.
A video released by the IDF revealed that the Moudge-class IRIS Deylaman, which was commissioned just three years earlier, was among the vessels sunk. While Iran identifies this class as a frigate, it has a displacement of a corvette. It was armed with advanced anti-aircraft, and air-ship missiles.
Preparations for the strikes only began days ago, and it was not among the military’s initial bank of targets in Iran, the IDF said. Researchers at the military’s Naval Intelligence Division located the ships and worked with the Military Intelligence Directorate and the Israeli Air Force to plan the attack.
The strikes marked the first time that the IDF had hit in this part of Iran, both in this war and the previous rounds of conflict.
The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, were badly hit during the ongoing American-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic.
According to the United States Central Command, Iranian naval forces have so far lost more than 60 vessels. The number does not include those destroyed by the IDF in Bandar Anzal and in the Caspian Sea, nor additional vessels seen getting hit by U.S. strikes near the Strait of Hormuz in footage released by the command on March 19.
While Iran appears to have lost nearly all of its largest warships, its anti-shipping capabilities are still very much in place thanks to a wide array of systems that can be launched from ashore, including cruise and ballistic missiles, suicide drones, unmanned boats, and even unmanned underwater vessels.
This is evident by the status of the Strait of Hormuz that remains tightly under the control of the Islamic Republic, which has so far attacked more than 20 vessels, including tankers, that attempted to challenge its restrictions in some way or another.
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all attempted by inferior americunts—they always blame superior jews—in burgerstan we all submissively pay billions so that hebrew jizz can be pumped in our anuz to improve our thinking
asi es como se combate.