U.S. intelligence announced on April 12 that Iran would retaliate against Israel within 24 to 48 hours. Now it seems that the U.S. intelligence community has obtained relevant information, because in the middle of the night on April 13, Iran has begun a formal retaliatory strike, according to foreign media reports, a large number of suicide drones took off from Iranian territory, crossed the airspace of Iraq and Jordan, and attacked targets in Israel. Iran has officially announced retaliation against Israel, vowing to retaliate as early as April 1, the same day Israel attacked the Iranian embassy in Syria, and on April 13 it finally fulfilled its promise and began attacks on Israeli targets.
U.S. President Joe Biden publicly stated that the United States would provide protection to Israel and demanded that Iran stop attacking targets in Israel before learning that Iran was preparing to retaliate. After the Iranian attack, US President Joe Biden returned to the White House immediately after his vacation and immediately convened an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in the Middle East. In response to Iran's attack, Israel has announced that it will close its airspace from the early hours of April 14, and a large number of fighter jets have been on alert.
In fact, before Iran launched the attack, Iran suddenly seized an Israeli-related container ship in the Strait of Hormuz, so the outside world was puzzled, once thought that Iran gave up direct retaliation against Israel, but retaliated by blockading Israel in the Strait of Hormuz. Judging by the information disclosed by foreign media, suicide drones are the first wave of retaliation, according to the latest reports, Iranian suicide drones have flown into Israeli airspace, and Israel's air defense system has officially engaged, initially intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system.
Iran's suicide drones have had many successes, but they were not achieved through Iran, but during the conflict in the Ukraine crisis, Russia used a large number of Iranian-developed suicide drones to strike Ukraine's infrastructure. Through the test of actual combat, Iran's "Witness" 136 UAV has a strong assault capability, due to the use of simple engines, so it has the characteristics of low cost, Russia through the use of a large number of suicide drones, which is equivalent to saturation attacks on targets in Ukraine, starting from October 10, 2022, Russia has frequently launched large-scale bombing, during which there are "Witness" 136 participation.
In fact, Russia is already working on its own soil to build the "Witness" 136 UAV, and Russian television has already published a video of the plant. Iran has made many achievements in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, and now when retaliating against Israel, the "Witness" 136 has become the first wave of the attack, and the analysis of the global beacon line believes that this is one of the actions used by Iran to attract Israel's air defense, because while using suicide drones, Iran also has a more effective way to strike, that is, the critical strike of ballistic missiles, and there is a time difference between the launch of ballistic missiles and the projection of drones, because the speed difference is too much.