Uganda, April 18 -- In a move expected, but whose full weight registered on the weekend, Iran launched 300 drones and surface to air missiles on Israel and Jordan to avenge prior Israeli attacks on Iran's embassy in Syria that left two senior Iranian Republican Guard officials dead.

The drones (remote controlled aircraft systems) are armed flights without pilots. While surface to air missiles are payloads launched from fixed or mobile sites. SAMs are denoted by specific emissions associated with each weapon system that can be picked up by radars.

The US and Israel military sources stated 99 percent of the payload was intercepted by Patriot Surface to Air Missile interceptors. These heat seeking missiles intercept oncoming fire. Iran and...