🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — Iran has increasingly used cluster-warhead ballistic missiles against Israel, continuously scattering dozens of small cluster munitions over wide areas, creating a challenge for Israeli defenses, The Times of Israel reports.

➡️ The Israeli Air Force sometimes chooses not to intercept all bomblets to conserve interceptor missiles, as the submunitions are less dangerous if civilians are in shelters.

➡️ Since the war began on February 28, Iran has launched over 350 missiles, with roughly half, and possibly more recently, carrying cluster warheads.

➡️ The cluster warheads release 24–80 submunitions over a radius of up to 10 km, some of which fail to explode and remain hazardous.

➡️ The attacks have caused at least nine deaths and multiple injuries, with over 100 impact sites in populated areas, while Israel says its interception rate for major threats is about 90%.

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️The moment of the defeat of the F-35 of the US Air Force by fire from an Iranian air defense system, published by IRGC media resources.

This is the first confirmed case of a manned aircraft being hit by Iranian air defense fire and the first case in the world of a combat damage to an F-35 fighter jet.

Just a little bit more and it would have been the first successful shoot-down, but, as CNN claims, the aircraft itself withstood the hit and made an emergency safe landing at one of the bases in the Middle East. The video also ends at the moment of the missile hitting near the fighter jet and does not show its fall, as in the case of drone footage.

This demonstrates both the good survivability of the F-35 and the ability of the remnants of the Iranian air defense system to successfully operate from ambushes even against modern 5th-generation fighters.

🇮🇷 MEET IRAN'S SEJJIL MISSILE

They call it the Dancing Missile.

Iran to Israel in 7 minutes. But here's why nobody can stop it: the Sejjil changes direction mid-descent. The interceptor arrives at empty space, and the missile hits its target.

It's stored fully fueled, ready to launch in minutes. Satellites can't detect it preparing. No warning. No window.

On March 15, it entered this war for the first time.

VIA thewartoon on Instagram.

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🇮🇷 MEET IRAN's KHEIBAR SHEKAN!!!

The Kheibar Shekan ("Kheibar Breaker") is an Iranian solid-fuel ballistic missile with a range of ~1,450 km. Its maneuverable warhead is designed to evade air defense systems — and its name, referencing a 7th century battle against a Jewish fortress, is a message aimed directly at Israel.

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🇸🇦🇮🇷🛢 — Saudi Arabia has warned that oil prices could rise to as much as $180 per barrel if disruptions from the Iran war continue beyond April, WSJ reports.

➡️ While higher prices may bring short-term gains, officials are concerned they could lead to reduced global demand or even a recession, hurting long-term revenues.

➡️ They also worry about the perception that Saudi Arabia is profiting from a conflict it is not directly involved in, adding geopolitical risks.