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Israel appeared to use US-made 2,000-pound bombs in the strike that killed Hezbollah's chief

Israeli fighter jets taking off to carry out strikes against Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.Israeli Air Force/Screengrab via XIsrael killed longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike in Beirut on Friday.The Israeli military shared imagery of F-15I fighter jets taking off for the high-stakes mission.The aircraft were spotted carrying highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs.The Israeli fighter jets that carried out the strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday appear to have used US-made 2,000-pound "bunker buster" bombs to get the job done, according to imagery and munitions experts.The Israeli Air Force published footage Saturday showing an F-15I fighter jet taking off the day before to execute the airstrikes on Hezbollah's central headquarters in the Lebanese capital of Beirut."Air Force planes in the elimination of Hassan Nasrallah and the Hezbollah headquarters in Lebanon," the caption read.The Israeli military also shared a still image of an F-15I taking off for the strike mission that shows the aircraft carrying BLU-109 bombs outfitted with Joint Direct Attack Munition kits, according to the Open Source Munitions Portal, a weapons identification site created by Airwars and Armament Research Services.An Israeli fighter jet carrying multiple BLU-109 bombs.Israeli Air Force photoThe BLU-109 is a US-made air-to-ground munition that weighs 2,000 pounds.

 

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