Iran ‘top target’ hit in $10M precision strike, US Kamikaze drones used to 'overwhelm'

Israel struck its cardinal people successful Tehran Saturday successful what a defence adept has described arsenic a multi-million dollar precision-guided onslaught alongside a broader violative involving U.S. waves of lower-cost kamikaze drones.

Cameron Chell, CEO of drone shaper Draganfly, told Fox News Digital the run would person apt paired precocious and costly assets against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s compound, portion U.S. forces utilized cheaper drones to "overwhelm" connected land, aerial and sea.

"Saturday saw an overwhelming daytime onslaught with unthinkable quality to people the enactment and a onslaught connected the compound perchance costing tens of millions," Chell said.

A representation of Western strikes against Iran (Fox News)

"That would apt person included expensive, precision-strike drones oregon manned craft successful highly coordinated attacks to guarantee success, not needfully the lower-cost, one-way mentation of the termination drones," helium explained.

"The U.S. has this lower-cost alternate to deed everything astatine once, but past the precise expensive, high-precision assets would apt person gone straight aft enactment connected Saturday," Chell added.

A elder U.S. authoritative confirmed to Fox News that the compound onslaught was a "wildly bold daytime attack."

"It caught the elder enactment disconnected guard, connected a Saturday greeting during Ramadan and connected Shabbat successful the daytime," the authoritative added. 

"We deed the elder leaders close retired of the gate," the root told Fox National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin.

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Iran’s military, authorities and quality sites were targeted, an authoritative briefed connected the cognition besides told The Associated Press connected information of anonymity.

A fistful of apical Iranian leaders were killed, including the commandant of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

President Donald Trump besides announced Saturday that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had been killed successful the strike.

"If drones were progressive successful that apical people attack, it would person been the precise blase MQ-type oregon Global Hawk-type drones," Chell said.

Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said different attacks crossed the state were being done "to region threats."

As antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, those targets included Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) bid and power facilities, Iranian aerial defence capabilities, rocket and drone motorboat sites and subject airfields.

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U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine monitors U.S. subject operations successful Iran pursuing an Israeli onslaught successful Tehran alongside respective Cabinet members connected Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (@WhiteHouse/X)

Chell described however those secondary targets would person been deed by the U.S. with the cheaper one-way "kamikaze" drones earlier adding that the strikes "seemed to beryllium an fantabulous illustration of wide overwhelm astatine a caller level."

Chell suggested Iran’s defenses were apt degraded good earlier the onslaught began due to the fact that of the coordination.

"I deliberation apt the defence systems, connection systems, were overwhelmingly compromised," helium added. "And truthful I deliberation they conscionable overwhelmed them," helium said.

"I’m definite determination would person been days, if not adjacent weeks, of enactment and mentation to instrumentality retired those defence connection systems," helium said.

"They would person compromised those defence communications successful immoderate mode done physics warfare oregon cyberattack."

"The battlefield present is truthful multidimensional," Chell emphasized.

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"It’s astir cyber warfare, misinformation and physics warfare arsenic well."

"This was seemingly truthful swift due to the fact that it was incredibly well-planned and coordinated by the U.S. and Israel connected a monolithic level that’s not been seen before," helium added.

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