Overview
- U.S. Central Command reports roughly 1,700 strikes and more than 200 Iranian ballistic missile launchers destroyed or disabled in the operation’s first 72 hours.
- Footage released by CENTCOM appears to show a U.S. Navy destroyer using the HELIOS laser against drones, with the Navy previously confirming four test shootdowns in February.
- Space Force infrared satellites detect missile launches in seconds and cue defenses, while U.S.-based radome crews calculate trajectories and likely impact points in real time.
- Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Dan Caine says U.S. Cyber Command hit Iranian communications and sensor networks before kinetic strikes to disrupt and confuse defenses.
- Videos of rockets failing near the Israel–Lebanon border are widely, though unofficially, attributed to Israel’s Iron Beam, with some battlefield attributions still unconfirmed.