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🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 The IRGC has just debuted the Haj Qassem missile in its 59th wave of Operation True Promise 4, targeting sites across Israel and US bases throughout the region.
The Haj Qassem is a solid-fuelled medium-range ballistic missile with a reach of 1,400 kilometres and a 500kg warhead. It was named after Qassem Soleimani ssassinated in January 2020 (Trump ironically saying he was murdered to prevent American bases from being destroyed). Iran has been accelerating this program ever since, and tonight they put it on the board for the first time in this war.
The missile carries a maneuverable warhead specifically engineered to defeat THAAD and Patriot defence systems. Its guidance combines inertial navigation with an infrared optical seeker that homes in on heat signatures with no GPS required, electronic
jamming doesn’t touch it.
This barrage included Ghadr, Emad, and Fattah variants alongside the Haj Qassem, with the IRGC claiming strikes on Beit Shemesh, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and US bases in Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, and Iraq.
The White House said Iran’s missile capacity was “functionally destroyed.”
They just introduced Haj Qassem to the board. Beware the precedents you set…