Six Iranian ballistic missiles during the June 13-24 war with the Islamic Republic directly hit five IDF bases, according to radar data The Telegraph reported on Sunday, and The Jerusalem Post independently confirmed.
These strikes were not made public within Israel until The Telegraph, a London-based outlet, published them.
This radar data was shared with The Telegraph by US academics at Oregon State University, who specialise in using satellite radar data to detect bomb damage in war zones.
Despite the radar data and reports of these Iranian hits on military bases which go beyond the 36 Iranian ballistic missile hits inside residential areas, Western sources told the Post that the impact and damage by these hits was actually less than the impact and damage caused in October 2024.
In October 2024, it was widely reported that the IDF widely distributed certain capabilities and that many missiles struck the Tel Nof and Nevatim air force bases.
According to the Telegraph, it seems that regarding Iran's hits on IDF bases in June they "have not been made public by the Israeli authorities and cannot be reported from within the country because of strict military censorship laws," - but the bottom line is that the impact and damage itself was more minor than the impact of some of Iran's hits in residential areas.
No IDF casualties despite hits on bases
Further, since the IDF widely distributed its capabilities again during the June war, there were no IDF casualties and neither the air force nor IDF intelligence operations were impacted by the hits.
According to The Telegraph, Corey Scher, a researcher at Oregon State University, said his unit was working on a fuller assessment of missile damage in both Israel and Iran, and would publish its findings in around two weeks.
The report said that the radar system data that they used to assess damage measured changes in the built environment to detect blasts and that absolute confirmation of hits would require either on-the-ground reporting at the military sites or satellite photos.
Next, the report said that if in the early days of the war only 2% of Iranian missiles were breaching Israel's missile defense shield, that by day seven that number had jumped to 16%.
In the last few days of the war, Iran's percentage of breaching Israel's missile shield fell again once it was losing the capacity to fire larger salvos of missiles all at once.
In February, the Post exclusively reported about the IDF intelligence Sapir unit having moved large amounts of IDF intelligence underground prior to Iran's first massive missile strike on Israel back in April 2024.
Following that and the October 2024 attack, the IDF continued to improve its underground capacity to shield IDF intelligence from Tehran's missiles.