War Iran launches dozens of ballistic missiles toward Israel - umerous explosions have been reported in central Israel, and Israeli missile defense systems lit up the sky as they activated to intercept the incoming missiles.

A memorial for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Tehran. Photo: Hossein Beris/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty

Iran launched around 100 ballistic missiles toward Israel the first wave of an attack on Tuesday, with a second wave now underway, Israeli officials say.

State of play: Numerous explosions have been reported in central Israel, and Israeli missile defense systems lit up the sky as they activated to intercept the incoming missiles.

The big picture: Tehran has been vowing retaliation after a series of recent Israeli assassinations. That retaliation is now be underway.

• "A short time ago missiles were launched from Iran into the territory of the State of Israel," an IDF spokesperson said. "You are asked to be vigilant and act exactly according to the instructions of the Home Front Command. The IDF is doing and will do everything necessary to protect the citizens of the State of Israel."
• The Israeli Security Cabinet is convened at the government bunker near Jerusalem, Israeli officials said.
• There has been no confirmation yet of any casualties inside Israel.

Driving the news: The missile launches came hours after the White House warned that a ballistic missile attack was imminent.

• "We are actively supporting defensive preparations to defend Israel against this attack. A direct military attack from Iran against Israel will carry severe consequences for Iran," a senior White House official said prior to the attack.
• The U.S. first warned Israel of the impending attack around noon local time (5am ET), a senior Israeli official said.
• The use of ballistic missiles makes this a more difficult attack for Israel to defend against than the Iranian drone and missile attack last April — Iran's first-ever direct attack on Israeli territory — which was largely repelled by Israel and its partners, led by the U.S.
• Ballistic missiles can reach Israel within 12 minutes, while drones and cruise missiles leave more time to defend against.

Driving the news: The warnings of an imminent attack came just hours after Israel escalated its conflict with Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia, by launching a ground invasion of southern Lebanon.

• Iran has been promising retaliation against Israel for two months, since the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
• Iran had yet to respond to that attack, and also rebuffed urging from Hezbollah to launch an attack against Israel within the past two weeks, Axios reported.
• U.S. and Israeli officials had been concerned that the Israeli ground invasion and the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah — a longtime ally of Iran's supreme leader — would push Iran to change course and get more directly involved to save the militia it has armed and supported for decades.
• Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke Tuesday with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, shortly before the Iranian attack began.

What they're saying: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened security consultations on Tuesday morning and said in a statement: "We are in the midst of a campaign against Iran's axis of evil. We must stand together. We will stand firm together in the challenging days ahead."

• Ahead of the attack, Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Adm. Daniel Hagari said: "Our air defense systems are fully prepared and air force jets are patrolling the sky. We are at peak readiness in offense and defense together with our partners from the U.S. and are following the developments in Iran together. An Iranian attack on Israel will have consequences."
• Secretary of State Tony Blinken said at the top of his meeting with the foreign minister of Morocco that the U.S. is closely following the situation in the Middle East and is committed to Israel's security.
• Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei offered no hint of how Iran would respond to Friday's attack that killed Nasrallah and a senior Iranian general beyond saying the "criminal" Israeli government would "regret its actions."

Flashback: Iran launched a massive drone and missile attack against Israel in April in retaliation for another Israeli airstrike that killed a top Iranian general in Syria.

• Most of the drones and missiles were intercepted by Israeli, U.S., British, French, Jordanian and Saudi forces outside of Israeli airspace, and there were several injuries in Israel but no fatalities.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

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[isalaide]

Remember when the retarded kids would have nut-kicking contests in the playground, and the smaller retard would take their best kick at the other one's goolies, not really achieve much, and then the other bigger retard would announce 'MY TURN' before total nut destruction occurred?

So that, but in international relations, is what we are witnessing here.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Iranian and Russian sources claims that two airbases have been completely yeeted are going to turn out to be as true, I'm sure of it. Iran's on pace to be claiming 106.7% of missiles precisely hit their targets soon.

They fired 200 missiles at something. Some of those will be military targets, undoubtedly aircraft. If any of them hit there will be hell to pay.

 

[kcbbq]

Here is a footage showing a man killed in the missile strike by a section of a booster rocket.

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Isn't that a dude in Jericho? Like, in the West Bank, not Israel?

 

[Goofy Logic]

How many years will it take to get into full war economy mode? The US needs to build a shit load of factories to do that since over the last few decades they've shipped all their production over to China to save some money.

In World War 1 the Yanks had to bum machine guns from the French because the Americans didn't have the factory capacity to build their own in such a large deployment.

In World War 2 the US had to ramp up their production capacity further, and part of that was forcing factories into war production, and that included expanding them.

 

[John Badman]

Remember when the retarded kids would have nut-kicking contests in the playground, and the smaller retard would take their best kick at the other one's goolies, not really achieve much, and then the other bigger retard would announce 'MY TURN' before total nut destruction occurred?

So that, but in international relations, is what we are witnessing here.

As a nut punching champion who once had a parent threaten to sue me for making his son piss blood, the only solution is to nut punch all of Iran so hard they’ll be relegated to crying on the floor.

 

[draggs]

GDP is disingenuous for actual production value considering the insane redistribution the last 4 years.

Read this aloud and tell me with a straight face it isn't vague babble. There's no meaning here. Manufacturing numbers are fake and gay because... redistribution something something

There is no real excess capacity just sitting around today waiting to be dusted off, and if there was the time to start rebuilding it was years ago.

They started doing that at least a year and a half ago

GDP is a poor measure of material throughput
Edit: Late to respond

Monthly 155mm shell production is 4x what it was in October of last year. So there's some material throughput. It will be 6x by the end of the year. 8x by early next year. Any more buzzwords you wanna toss out?

I'm reading the NIST 2023 report on manufacturing, very boring and informative, people should check it out maybe

Money is used as a measure because it is the most convenient and full data to be gathered, and if you want to dig down into it can be converted into tonnage or other amounts of purchased/produced/sold if you're so inclined

But anyway the point is that American manufacturing capacity (which is again second in the world) is only used at a very small amount for military production, and people talking out their ass about how the US can't do this or that even on the margins because it has no manufacturing is very funny

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

What is the best way to dodge the draft?

Have diagnosed autism or ADHD.

 

[tehpope]

How many years will it take to get into full war economy mode? The US needs to build a shit load of factories to do that since over the last few decades they've shipped all their production over to China to save some money.

The US War economy was done under Fascist FDR.

 

[John Badman]

Read this aloud and tell me with a straight face it isn't vague babble. There's no meaning here. Manufacturing numbers are fake and gay because... redistribution something something

Value go up production go down. It’s that simple. If I buy cheap Venezuelan tar for $1 and sell it to you for $4 a gallon thats 20 times profit for what I bought to refine.

Manufacturing is fake and gay. Your dollar today isn’t as strong as you think it is compared to previous decades.

Given the current system you can’t just shift out of a pricing scheme because you need cheap missiles and tanks.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Iranian and Russian sources claims that two airbases have been completely yeeted are going to turn out to be as true, I'm sure of it. Iran's on pace to be claiming 106.7% of missiles precisely hit their targets soon.

Articles and headlines I see say different.

IAF, along with US and Jordan, intercept most of the projectiles; 1 Palestinian killed, 2 Israelis hurt; IDF says no harm to ‘competence’ of Air Force after attack targets bases

Can't wait to see which one is right tomorrow or so.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Value go up production go down. It’s that simple. If I buy cheap Venezuelan tar for $1 and sell it to you for $4 a gallon thats 20 times profit for what I bought to refine.

Manufacturing is fake and gay. Your dollar today isn’t as strong as you think it is compared to previous decades.

Given the current system you can’t just shift out of a pricing scheme because you need cheap missiles and tanks.

You see this? This is the M10 Booker. We only ordered these in 2023, first deliveries were in April 2024, and now we are at 108 at a planned total of 504. US manufacturing right now is fucking BUSSING. Manufacturing is next to godliness when things are going right, which they are in the US.

 

[Narcotics]

In a better world, everyone would just let the middle east destroy itself and watch from afar without touching anything.

 

[John Badman]

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You see this? This is the M10 Booker. We only ordered these in 2023, first deliveries were in April 2024, and now we are at 108 at a planned total of 504. US manufacturing right now is fucking BUSSING. Manufacturing is next to godliness when things are going right, which they are in the US.

Desert Storm took 3,113 tanks. The M10 Booker is a light assault vehicle that gets fucked by a direct hit. Do you really want to storm Mogadishu with a bunch of Bradleys?

 

[WelperHelper99]

Desert Storm took 3,113 tanks. The M10 Booker is a light assault vehicle that gets fucked by a direct hit. Do you really want to storm Mogadishu with a bunch of Bradleys?

We have over 4000 Abrams both active and in storage. The Abrams is still in active production if we need more. We are good on tanks. This is a assault vehicle for fucking up infantry, fortifications, and anything short of a tank. Know your vehicles. This was a example of a program going right and on track.

 

[John Badman]

We have over 4000 Abrams both active and in storage. The Abrams is still in active production if we need more. We are good on tanks. This is an assault vehicle for fucking up infantry, fortifications, and anything short of a tank. Know your vehicles.

In storage, but are they up-armored with the latest package? If not then a simple Kornet system can take both out easily.

 

[Clotso Coof]

Here is a footage showing a man killed in the missile strike by a section of a booster rocket.

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That's incredible. Is that the Palestinian that was killed? If so...Allah says you should have said your prayers this morning, motherfucker.

 

[draggs]

Value go up production go down. It’s that simple. If I buy cheap Venezuelan tar for $1 and sell it to you for $4 a gallon thats 20 times profit for what I bought to refine.

Manufacturing is fake and gay. Your dollar isn’t as strong as you think it is.

What's simple is you thinking this is persuasive at all lol

You toss out an irrelevant comment about the dollar's value (check out the ~45 year dollar index chart and get back to me k?)

After giving an example of adding value by manufacturing process that has nothing to do with capacity and is meaningless, except that it implies US manufacturing has been going down to some subbasement level but increasing the value of the few products it still does manufacture so much that it makes absolutely no sense lol

Believe what you want it doesn't matter. The only military item the US is deficient in production and can't quickly rectify or isn't rectifying is warships because of the sheer size and complexity the shipyards need to be. And even that would be taken care of within a few years if there were a big war and Congress went ham with the total war spending and war taxes and all that awful shit

 

[WelperHelper99]

In storage, but are they up-armored with the latest package?

2.640 are active and up to date, 2000 in storage. If we lose them in a TPK in the first 48 hours of a war we are fucked anyway, they are using nukes to clear grid squares. The remaining could easily be updated in a wartime footing.

 

[Big Brutus]

Do you really want to storm Mogadishu with a bunch of Bradleys?

During Desert Storm, the M2 Bradley was responsible for destroying more Iraqi armored vehicles than the M1 Abrams was. The Iraqis managed to kill an outstanding total of three, read that again, three M2s. By comparison, 11 M2s were destroyed by friendly fire.

 

[John Badman]

During Desert Storm, the M2 Bradley was responsible for destroying more Iraqi armored vehicles than the M1 Abrams was. The Iraqis managed to kill an outstanding total of three, read that again, three M2s. By comparison, 11 M2s were destroyed by friendly fire.

Okay but we have to consider, 1: they got stuck in kill lanes storming down town, and 2: they weren’t built by black women rubber stamped with DEI.