It’s a first for Hezbollah to strike “this deep into Israel and do so using a guided system. This is a new level of escalation by Hezbollah we haven’t seen before,” Fabian Hinz, a research fellow for Defence and Military Analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies told Breaking Defense.
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“I assume for Russia they are relevant for the kind of battles we see in the border area between Russian and Ukrainian troops so at tactical level to exhaust the Ukrainians,” analyst Jean Loup Samaan told Breaking Defense.
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“[Brig. Gen. Aziz] Nasirzadeh’s aims are high, even hyperbolic, but are also rhetorically consistent with what has been seen and heard from the Islamic Republic’s defense industry,” analyst Behnam Ben Taleblu told Breaking Defense.
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Russian media said that 83 nations have sent delegations to the show, but only three nations besides Russia and Iran are displaying military tech: Belarus, India and China.
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Tehran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah are likely carefully weighing the cost and benefit of different responses, and in the meantime trying to raise fears in Israel while assuaging their own.
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Vice Admiral George M. Wikoff suggested that in addition to murkier supply lines, the Houthis have developed their own offensive capabilities to the point where “there’s discussion that they could [be] becoming exporters of technology.”
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Moshe Patel also highlighted close cooperation between Israel and the US as key to nation’s air defense readiness.
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One slide, for example, shows parts of intercepted munitions that share “key identifiable features with Iranian antiship cruise missiles,” the Defense Intelligence Agency said.
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“A comprehensive agreement might formalize closer political ties, potentially strengthening their shared opposition to the West, particularly in light of the Ukraine conflict and sanctions,” Mohammed Soliman, director of Strategic Technologies and Cyber Security Program at the Middle East Institute said.
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“Despite seeking international legitimacy, Houthi actions have damaged regional security, impeded international humanitarian relief efforts, and put stress on global maritime trade,” the new DIA report says.
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New statements from Iran are “abandoning the fiction” that they are not supplying anti-ship ballistic missile technology, according to analysts.
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As Iranian officials muddy the water, experts told Breaking Defense that Tehran’s “reliance on Turkish assistance in such scenarios suggests potential shortcomings” in the Islamic Republic’s own aerial capabilities.
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“We haven’t seen … the arrival of that many different, I would call ecosystems or capabilities, going that fast together in quite some time,” SOCOM Commander Gen. Bryan Fenton said of new technologies changing the nature of warfare.
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The decision comes amid Ukrainian clamoring for the system, though analysts doubted Israeli batteries would make their way north due to Russian sensitivities.
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