Soar imagery suggests damage at Ramat David Airforce Base hangar

Satellite imagery published early Tuesday morning suggests a hangar at ramat david airforce base may have been struck during the recent escalation between Israel and Iran. The change appears at a site inside the base near Migdal HaEmek in northern Israel.

The imagery from Soar shows a visible change at the hangar site when compared with satellite pictures taken on June 5. A distinct white patch and marking now appear where the structure previously stood.

Soar Atlas images

The first images were posted by @tom_bike on X and later released by Soar Atlas early Tuesday morning. The newer view does not show the full extent of damage, and the low resolution limits independent verification of what happened inside the hangar.

The nature of any equipment or assets housed there at the time of the reported strike also remains unclear. The Israel Defense Forces declined to comment on the reported findings, while Israel’s military censorship authorities authorized publication of the information.

Ramat David Airbase role

Ramat David Airbase is one of Israel’s key military aviation facilities and home to five Israeli Air Force squadrons operating F-16 fighter jets and unmanned aerial vehicles. That makes any apparent change to a hangar inside the base more consequential than damage at a less central site.

The base has also been linked before to reported attacks during periods of heightened regional tensions. Last month, satellite imagery circulated by open-source intelligence observers appeared to show evidence of two separate strikes impacting areas of Ramat David Airbase during Operation Roaring Lion, though official confirmation regarding those incidents was limited.

For now, the latest imagery adds a new data point to the record around Ramat David Airbase: a changed hangar site on June 5, a visible white patch in the current view, and no public detail yet from the Israel Defense Forces on what the structure held when the reported strike occurred.