Israeli satellite imagery shows Russian nuclear-capable missiles in Syria

Captured on Dec 28 by the Israeli-built Eros B satellite, the spy-quality images were posted Jan. 5 on the website of ImageSat International (iSi), a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the state-owned firm that builds all of Israel’s spy satellites.

In a section of the iSi website called Insights, the firm shows an image over Russia’s Hmeymin base in Latakia, Syria of what it says are two Iskander-launching vehicles, each capable of deploying two of the 500-kilometer-range surface-to-surface missiles known to NATO as SS-26.

Other images compare a shot captured in late November, which shows six different “missile elements” under camouflage nets, to one taken Dec. 28 of a nearby location, in which the two vehicles are exposed.