Twice between May 3 and 5, the Israeli Air Force conducted air strikes in Syria using Precision Guided Munitions.
The first raid hit a convoy believed to be moving Fateh-110 missiles destined for Hezbollah, whereas the second one hit several ground targets located near Damascus: the Jamraya scientific research center (the only one officially confirmed by Syrian TV), some missile fuel storage depot as well as the 4th Brigade of the Republican Guard’s barracks.
After an open source imagery analysis of Al-Manar TV (a Lebanese satellite television station affiliated with Hezbollah), The Aviationist’s contributor and military expert Giuliano Ranieri was able to locate the site of the attack near the Jamraya research center.
Actually, it’s is still not clear whether the center, attacked in January, was hit again or not. Still, the building complex targeted during the night between May 4 and 5 could have been the research center’s back-up structure — used to continue scientific work.
Images of the site seem to show that no penetrating weapons were employed. No ventilation systems — typical of underground bunkers — can be seen, a sign that, quite likely, the target could have been a mysterious facility operating under cover, rather than a military installation.
“It’s hard to understand what the facility was: just dead hens and collapsed walls can be seen in the photos published by the media outlets … ” Ranieri explains.
Regardless of what the facility might have hidden, the attack seem to have been accurate and quite far from populated areas.
Another sortie was made against a munition depot near Al-Dimaas, 15 km from Jamraya.
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