Source: TOI
Context: Iran launched Operation True Promise 3, escalating military strikes on Israel for the third consecutive day.
About Operation True Promise 3:
- What is it?
- Operation True Promise 3 is Iran’s latest retaliatory military campaign targeting Israeli cities and infrastructure in response to Israeli airstrikes on its nuclear and command facilities.
- Launched by: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) under the directive of Iran’s supreme military leadership.
- Trigger: It was launched after Israel’s pre-emptive strikes that killed several top Iranian generals and damaged nuclear enrichment sites at Natanz and Isfahan.
- Impact:
- Key Israeli cities like Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Rehovot were hit.
- Power stations, refineries, and scientific institutions were damaged.
About “New Method” Used in Missile Strikes:
- What is the “New Method”?
- The IRGC claimed to have deployed a novel strike mechanism wherein multiple missile types were programmed to overwhelm Israel’s air defence systems by creating internal target conflicts.
- How It Works?
- Simultaneous launches triggered misaligned threat signatures, forcing Israel’s defence systems (like Iron Dome) to misidentify or intercept each other.
- Some missiles intentionally mimicked decoys to create false positives in radar systems.
- Features:
- Decoy Saturation: Overloaded Iron Dome by flooding the airspace with both real and false targets.
- Internal Disruption: Israel’s layered defence was made to target itself or malfunction.
- Multi-Target Penetration: Enabled missiles to hit high-density residential zones and economic infrastructure.
- AI-assisted Trajectory Alteration: Enhanced missile agility mid-flight for unpredictable targeting.
- Strategic Significance:
- Signals a tech leap in asymmetric warfare using cyber-kinetic convergence.
- Raises alarms over vulnerabilities in multi-layered missile defence
- Could alter the future of urban warfare, especially where high-value civilian and economic targets are clustered.
