Iran shows off sprawling underground missile city with row after row of drones and rockets – amid growing fears US and its allies are burning through multi-million-pound weaponry
Iran has shown off a vast network of underground tunnels filled with rows of drones and rockets, amid fears that the US and its allies are burning expensive weapons in their war against the regime.
Images published by Fars News Agency, which is closely linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, show long rows of missiles and Shahed UAVs.
The video featured a ticking clock in the background and used dramatic drone footage to show the size of their cheap arsenal.
One shot showed a wall-to-wall painting depicting now-dead Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei staring at a massive arsenal of drones.
A number of Iranian flags were seen hanging from the roof of the tunnels.
Another showed a pair of trucks carrying Shahed drone launchers; each contained four inexpensive drones.
King drones only cost tens of thousands of dollars to produce and take very little time to produce.
Israel admitted today that Iran still has a significant capacity to launch missiles at its enemies.
King drones seen with their launchers in the back of a pair of trucks
Iran shows off a sprawling network of underground tunnels filled with rows of drones and rockets
Rows of Iranian drones and missiles seen in underground tunnels
And there are fears that the advanced weapons now favored by the United States and its allies may be too expensive and too difficult to procure for a longer military campaign.
American-made Patriot missiles can cost between $4-5 million (£3-3.75 million), with export prices even higher.
THAAD missile batteries, meanwhile, could cost around $13 million (£9.74 million) each.
The analysis, conducted by Kirsty Grieco, a security expert at the Stimson Center in Washington, DC, found that the UAE hit 92% of the missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles Iran threw its way.
Grieco estimates that Iran spent between $11 and $27 million for the 541 UAVs it launched against the UAE, and spent an average of $500,000 to $1.5 million per UAV to shoot down 506 of the interceptors.
BAE’s drone defense costs were between $253 and $759 million; This shows that the UAE spent 30 times more defending itself against Iranian drones than its rival spent attacking it.
There are also fears that Gulf countries may soon run out of air defense defenses.
A source told the Daily Mail: ‘At current rates stocks could run out within four days.
King drones only cost tens of thousands of dollars to produce and take very little time to produce
Images published by Fars News Agency, which is closely linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, show long rows of missiles and Shahed drones.
This comes as Tehran was attacked on Wednesday amid an ever-escalating war in the Middle East
‘Interceptors are being deployed at an unprecedented rate.’
This comes as explosions were heard in Iran’s capital on Wednesday as war with the United States and Israel entered its fifth day, with Israel targeting Iran’s leadership and security forces and the Islamic Republic responding with missile bombardments and drone strikes on Israel and across the region.
According to Iranian state television, the explosions in Tehran occurred at dawn. The Israeli army said that its air defenses were activated to block Iran’s missiles targeting Israel and explosions were heard around Jerusalem.
Brent crude oil prices have risen more than 13% since the start of the conflict to over $82 a barrel, reaching their highest price since July 2024, as Iran blocked tanker movement in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which about a fifth of the world’s oil is shipped.
Global stock markets were shaken by concerns that the rise in oil prices could negatively affect the world economy and disrupt corporate profits.
The American Embassy in Saudi Arabia and the US Consulate in the United Arab Emirates came under drone strikes on Tuesday, while the US State Department said on Wednesday it had authorized non-emergency government personnel to evacuate the kingdom.
U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, said Iran has launched more than 500 ballistic missiles and 2,000 unmanned aerial vehicles so far.
He described American attacks in the opening hours of the campaign as ‘almost twice the magnitude’ of the initial attacks during the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Israel admitted today that Iran still has a significant capability to launch missiles at its enemies
‘Currently, we have hit nearly 2000 targets with more than 2000 rounds of ammunition. We have severely weakened Iran’s air defenses and destroyed hundreds of Iran’s ballistic missiles, launchers and drones,” Cooper said in a pre-recorded message shared online Wednesday.
‘Simply put, we are focused on shooting anything that can shoot at us,’ he added.
Nearly 800 people were killed in Iran on the fifth day of a war that US President Donald Trump said could last a month or longer; among them are some people Trump has said he sees as potential future leaders of the country.
Israel said on Wednesday it had carried out a series of attacks targeting Iranian security forces across Tehran, the day after it struck a building in the city of Qom associated with the religious council that will elect Iran’s next religious leader.
