Israel used US-made bomb in attack on Hezbollah Chief
According to a U.S. senator on Sunday, the bomb that Israel used to assassinate Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut last week was a guided missile manufactured in the United States.
In an interview with NBC, Mark Kelly, the head of the Senate Armed Services Airland Subcommittee, said that Israel had deployed a bomb weighing 2,000 pounds (900 kg) from the Mark 84 series. This is the first time the United States has disclosed the weapon that was utilized.
“JDAMs, or guided munitions, are being used more often, and we will continue to supply those weapons,” Kelly said, referring to the acronym for Joint Direct Attack Munitions. “The bomb that weighed two thousand pounds and was used to eliminate Nasrallah belongs to the Mark 84 series,” he said.
The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had destroyed Nasrallah in an attack on the organization’s southern suburban central command center in Beirut. The kind of weaponry utilized in the strike has not been disclosed by the Israeli military. There was no immediate response from the Pentagon.
With the use of fins and a GPS guidance system, JDAMs may transform an ordinary unguided bomb into a guided weapon. The United States is Israel’s largest weapons supplier and longstanding ally.
