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The proven effectiveness of cruise missiles of its own production may have been behind Israel's recent acquisition of these submarines which are equipped with torpedo tubes suitable for launching long-range (1,500–2,400 km) nuclear-capable cruise missiles [182] [183] that would offer Israel a second strike capability. [184]
Israel is also generally understood to have nuclear weapons, but does not acknowledge it, maintaining a policy of deliberate ambiguity. [3] Israel is estimated to possess somewhere between 75 and 400 nuclear warheads. [4] [5] One possible motivation for nuclear ambiguity is deterrence with minimum political friction. [6] [7]
It is believed that Israel had possessed an operational nuclear weapons capability by 1967, with the mass production of nuclear warheads occurring immediately after the Six-Day War. [2] Experts estimated the stockpile of Israeli nuclear weapons range from 60 to as many as 400.
Israel blew up an Iran sponsored Syrian missile factory after its elite commandos raided it last September. The missiles posed an existential threat to Israel amid its war against Tehran's proxies.
Israel's first open attack on Iran targets missile sites, but spares oil and nuclear targets, military officials said. The attack risks pushing the archenemies closer to all-out war.
Israel's anti-missile system intercepts rockets after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, on October 1, 2024. - Amir Cohen/Reuters
[32] On 2 November 2011, Israel successfully test fired a missile believed to be an upgraded version of the Jericho III from Palmachim; the long trail of smoke was seen throughout central Israel. [33] Israel's intercontinental ballistic missile launchers are believed to be buried so deeply that they would survive a first strike nuclear attack ...
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