Middle East Conflict
Satellite images showed some sites hit by Israel housed “planetary mixers”, which are used to make solid fuel for ballistic missiles. As a result, if Iran needs its own supply of missiles for fresh attacks on Israel, experts say it could now struggle to provide more projectiles to Russia due to a lack of fuel. “The destruction of Iranian solid-fuel planetary mixers could influence any Iranian decision to export solid-fuelled short-range ballistic missiles to Russia if these missiles are regarded as being difficult to replace,” said Dr Sidharth Kaushal, senior research fellow at Rusi, the defence think tank.
