New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows
The New York Times • • nation
Key Points:
- On the first day of the war with Iran, a newly developed U.S.-made ballistic missile, identified as the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), was used in an attack near a military facility in Lamerd, southern Iran, killing at least 21 people.
- The Feb. 28 strike targeted a sports hall and an adjacent elementary school, with damage and explosion patterns consistent with the PrSM, which detonates above its target dispersing tungsten pellets.
- This attack coincided with a separate U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile strike on a school in Minab, Iran, killing 175 people several hundred miles away.
- Visual analysis and expert verification by The New York Times confirmed the missile's distinctive silhouette and midair explosion in videos from the Lamerd strike.
