From the Times of Israel, March 6:
US, Israel say Iran missile fire down, most launchers taken out as offensive ramps up
Hegseth says US firepower to surge as B-2s start dropping heavy bombs on missile sites deep underground; Zamir says new phase will target regime’s foundations; cluster warhead fired at central Israel in late night attack
Military chiefs in Israel and the US said Thursday that the countries’ airstrikes had notched major successes in taking out Iran’s missile threat and warned that the offensive was set to intensify in the coming days, even as ballistic missile and drone attacks continued to harass Israel and Gulf states.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said waves of strikes had destroyed 80 percent of Iran’s air defenses and 60% of its missile launchers, though he cautioned that “the threat has not yet been removed.”
Hours after he spoke, a fresh ballistic missile attack on central Israel, including a cluster warhead, sparked a fire and caused damage but no injuries, authorities said.
Central Command head Admiral Brad Cooper, who leads US forces in the Middle East, said Iran’s ballistic missile attacks had decreased by 90% since the first day of the war, while drone attacks had decreased by 83% in that time frame.
Cooper said that B-2 bombers had dropped dozens of 2000-pound penetrator bombs late Thursday, targeting deeply buried ballistic missile launchers, and that bombings were also targeting Iran’s missile production facilities.
Israel’s military said earlier it had hit hundreds of Iranian missile launchers above ground that could target Israeli cities, and two sources told Reuters that an upcoming second phase of the air campaign would target bunkers storing ballistic missiles and equipment, buried deep underground.
The US’s B-2 bombers are considered key to delivering the heavy bunker-buster bombs needed to penetrate Iran’s heavily fortified underground ballistic missile sites....
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