Difficult to say without reliable news reporting on the matter and there has been precious little of that with all the wildly overblown massive reprisal strike by Israel fake narrative reporting from the very beginning that fizzled into nothingness. Made me believe the reports of an attack were just a psyop at first blush if it weren't for Satellite photos of the site showing battle damage to the S-300 Radar & a launcher at the military airbase at Isfahan (approx 1,000km from Baghdad, Iraq)(900km from border?). Even the F35 with a 1,500km range would have needed drop tanks to complete the round trip strike with close in weapons & avoid detection (unless it was launched from Basra or Saudi Arabia - who also denied use of their airspace for an Israeli counterattack)..
(The CHAMP missile's range could be extended out to 1,000-1.200km using an Extreme range JASSM-ER cruise stealth missile. If this was carried externally and launched close to the airbase protecting Iranian nuclear sites while taking out the S-300 Air Defense System it might be possible to fry the electronics of the nuke sites and exfiltrate the missile to Iraqi airspace after the deed was done for recovery. This would have the desired effect of establishing deterrence in a big way and the Iranians could never admit the humiliation they suffered at the hands of Israel if they were successful in bricking the electronic equipment at the Nuclear Sites)
I never saw the debris from a US or Israeli missile on Twitter or the news being shown off by Iranian civilians, military, or government officials. Almost enough to make me believe the damage may have been inflicted by a satellite based directed energy weapon or the evidence was fabricated to placate the Israeli public's lust for revenge.
As I said before, without better information reported about what really happened during the strike, we may never know what really occurred...All this is just speculation as it is all we have and it appears all involved are content to keep it that way for the time being at least.
Difficult to say without reliable news reporting on the matter and there has been precious little of that with all the wildly overblown massive reprisal strike by Israel fake narrative reporting from the very beginning that fizzled into nothingness. Made me believe the reports of an attack were just a psyop at first blush if it weren't for Satellite photos of the site showing battle damage to the S-300 Radar & a launcher at the military airbase at Isfahan (approx 1,000km from Baghdad, Iraq)(900km from border?). Even the F35 with a 1,500km range would have needed drop tanks to complete the round trip strike with close in weapons & avoid detection (unless it was launched from Basra or Saudi Arabia - who also denied use of their airspace for an Israeli counterattack)..
The closest we have to an official version of the attack is this https://youtu.be/eIElFfUcgb0.
Per Larry Johnson, https://sonar21.com/sy-offers-new-version-of-israels-strike-on-iran-and-an-update-from-ukraine/ the Rampage missile is too large to be carried internally on the F35 and only has an operational range of 150-250km. Same can be said of the US CHAMP directional EMP missile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-electronics_High_Power_Microwave_Advanced_Missile_Project
(The CHAMP missile's range could be extended out to 1,000-1.200km using an Extreme range JASSM-ER cruise stealth missile. If this was carried externally and launched close to the airbase protecting Iranian nuclear sites while taking out the S-300 Air Defense System it might be possible to fry the electronics of the nuke sites and exfiltrate the missile to Iraqi airspace after the deed was done for recovery. This would have the desired effect of establishing deterrence in a big way and the Iranians could never admit the humiliation they suffered at the hands of Israel if they were successful in bricking the electronic equipment at the Nuclear Sites)
I never saw the debris from a US or Israeli missile on Twitter or the news being shown off by Iranian civilians, military, or government officials. Almost enough to make me believe the damage may have been inflicted by a satellite based directed energy weapon or the evidence was fabricated to placate the Israeli public's lust for revenge.
As I said before, without better information reported about what really happened during the strike, we may never know what really occurred...All this is just speculation as it is all we have and it appears all involved are content to keep it that way for the time being at least.