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An Emad missile on a launcher at a parade in Tehran, 2019 |
Bunker-busting missile strike shakes Israelis’ faith in their safety
... Rather than detonating its roughly 700kg warhead on the external walls of the residential block, the Iranian ballistic missile travelled right into the heart of the structure.
It exploded only when it struck the reinforced bunker nestling in the core of the building.
Four people were killed, two of them inside the shelter. ...
Following the tragedy in Petah Tikva, the Home Front Command was forced to state that the reinforced concrete shelters were not designed to withstand “direct hits”, after conceding that the Iranian missile “breached” the structure, causing it to collapse. ...