Israel said it carried out the “largest military flyover” in the history of the Israeli Air Force during the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran early Saturday morning.
Approximately 200 fighter jets, at the direction of intelligence from the Israel Defense Fund and Israeli Air Force, completed an attack against Iran’s defense systems.
“This is the largest military flyover in the history of the Israeli Air Force (IAF), conducted following accurate planning and based on high-quality intelligence, while synchronizing hundreds of fighter jets at the same time,” the Israel War Room said.
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The IAF’s fighter jets simultaneously dropped “hundreds of munitions” on 500 targets part of Iran’s missile array system, including aerial defense systems and missile launchers.
One of the strikes mentioned specifically in the post targeted a missile site in western Iran’s Tabriz. The IDF claimed that the Surface-to-Surface Missiles Unit would’ve been used to launch dozens of missiles toward Israel.
“The strikes on the defense systems allowed the expansion of the IAF’s aerial superiority over Iranian aerial territory, and severely degraded the offensive capabilities of the Iranian regime – the launch sites in western Iran,” the post said.
The use of the fighter jets was part of the joint military strikes Israel and the United States carried out against Iran on Saturday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this operation will “continue as long as necessary,” emphasizing the coordination with President Donald Trump during the operation.
“We are doing this in full cooperation with our friends in the United States under the courageous leadership of President Trump,” Netanyahu said during his remarks. “Together with the United States, we will strike hard at the terror regime and create conditions that will allow the brave Iranian people to cast off the yoke of this murderous regime.”