Israel used AIR LORA aeroballistic missiles for the first time in strike on Iran

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On the eve of Israel I spent large-scale operation "Days of Repentance", carrying out numerous strikes on Iranian military targets. During its implementation, Israeli Air Force aircraft with AIR LORA (LOng-Range Artillery) aeroballistic missiles were used for the first time.

It should be noted that the specified ammunition is a modification of the operational-tactical quasi-ballistic missile LORA of the "surface-to-surface" class - a kind of analogue of the Russian OTRK Iskander-M. Thus, AIR LORA is a reworking of the ground-based LORA complex, i.e. the same philosophy of turning Iskander-M into Kinzhal.

The use of AIR LORA by the Israelis is evidenced, for example, by the minimum circular error probable (less than 10 m) when flying over workshops in the industrial zone of the rocket-building plant in Parchin, recorded by the Dove optical-electronic monitoring satellites of the earth's surface of the American company Planet Labs, Inc.

AIR LORA are equipped with advanced INS and jam-proof radio navigation modules, and are capable of performing anti-aircraft maneuvers with high overloads at a fairly high speed. It is possible that they were the ones that hit two to four divisions of Iranian S-300PMU-2 air defense systems that were covering the air defense area over Parchin.

Israel used AIR LORA aeroballistic missiles for the first time in strike on Iran


Recently, the Israeli concern IAI released a video from the AIR LORA aeroballistic missile, demonstrating the ability to destroy the S-300PMU-2/S-400 air defense system in a “dead crater” located outside the coverage of the 30N6E and 92N6E illumination radars. Thus, the destruction of air defense systems in Iran is associated with the Iranians’ failure to comply with the principle of dispersing radars on the ground to overlap the aforementioned “dead craters”.


The Israeli Air Force also used the ROCKS aeroballistic missile (range up to 500 km) and probably different versions of the Sparrow (Black Sparrow, Blue Sparrow and Silver Sparrow) with a maximum range of up to 2000 km. The Blue Sparrow air-launched ballistic missiles are target missiles for testing Israel's air defenses, with a modular warhead capable of carrying a high-explosive warhead. The Rafael ROCKS long-range missiles use a Sparrow booster.

As for the Iranian Air Force, for unknown reasons they did not even try to intercept the Israeli F-16I, F-15I and F-35I fighters in the airspace of neighboring Iraq in advance at the moment when the Israeli Air Force aircraft reached the missile launch (attack) range.
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  1. +1
    27 October 2024 18: 15
    this article is for experts, but we sit on our couches and just worry about our situational allies...
  2. +1
    27 October 2024 18: 35
    Why didn't the Russian Air Defense warn Iran about the Israeli Air Force's departure, as the US does for Ukraine? It seems that the Russian Federation has played along with Israel again, it's time to use the FSB counterintelligence to eliminate Israeli "moles" and saboteurs in the Russian Federation.
    1. +1
      27 October 2024 19: 04
      Can they warn them if they didn't know?
      1. +2
        27 October 2024 19: 12
        You are either ignorant or a provocateur. What is the Voronezh and other long-range radars for, for such tasks, especially since the satellite system is connected. The Russian Federation knows about the mass takeoffs of the Air Force and missiles, tracks the routes, especially since the Russian Air Force Air Defense is working in Syria, right next to Israel... And the US sees it, and warns the Ukrainian Armed Forces of Ukraine about the takeoffs, even of one aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
    2. 0
      28 October 2024 09: 49
      The pro-Israeli Jewish Russian lobby is not some Central Asian diasporas and migrants. It is more important. There is such a dog buried here that it is not far from another revolution and civil war.
      This is one of the foundations of the economic, financial and political life of modern Russia.
      In short. Jews, Jews, Jews all around...
    3. 0
      28 October 2024 18: 32
      They warned us 4-3 hours in advance about the activity of US and Israeli aviation. So there is no need to lie.
      1. +1
        28 October 2024 20: 09
        Where are the sources of such information, please share..
  3. +1
    27 October 2024 19: 30
    If the Parchin area was hit, the launch could only have been carried out over Iraqi territory. The range of the LOR missiles is less than 500 km. The speed is up to 5 M. The S300 SAM could destroy these missiles only if it had 48N6DM missiles. Iranian media claim that the attacks were repelled.
    Details for specialists

    https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/how-capable-are-iran-s-s-300pmu-2s-for-missile-defence-russian-air-defences-guard-against-israeli-attacks

    https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/iran-antiair-range-repel-israel