We saw in the videos that there were barely any interceptions. Interceptions over jordan or iraq using arrow missiles? Maybe, but I doubt there were many.
I think Iran's goal was to demonstrate the ability to strike military equipment without escalating. I understand that most people are begging iran to focus more on getting kills rather than showing pinpoint strikes on military equipment.
We saw in the videos that there were barely any interceptions. Interceptions over jordan or iraq using arrow missiles? Maybe, but I doubt there were many.
I think Iran's goal was to demonstrate the ability to strike military equipment without escalating. I understand that most people are begging iran to focus more on getting kills rather than showing pinpoint strikes on military equipment.
Any interceptions that happened should have happened far far outside any of those videos -- usually kms away in both horizontal vertical for long range ballastic missles like this. Ideally the incoming missles aren't destroyed right on top of the target if you can help it. More low flying cruise missles or glide vehicles may get intercepted later but this attack was mostly ballistic missiles.
This looks exactly like I'd expect an attack that overwhelmed the available interceptor capacity to look like. If the video showed a bunch of interceptors trying to take out these incoming projectiles and failing *that* is evidence of missle interception failing. This looks like evidence that Israel doesn't have hundreds of interceptor launchers stationed around every base (it would be cost prohibitive).
We saw in the videos that there were barely any interceptions. Interceptions over jordan or iraq using arrow missiles? Maybe, but I doubt there were many.
I think Iran's goal was to demonstrate the ability to strike military equipment without escalating. I understand that most people are begging iran to focus more on getting kills rather than showing pinpoint strikes on military equipment.
Any interceptions that happened should have happened far far outside any of those videos -- usually kms away in both horizontal vertical for long range ballastic missles like this. Ideally the incoming missles aren't destroyed right on top of the target if you can help it. More low flying cruise missles or glide vehicles may get intercepted later but this attack was mostly ballistic missiles.
This looks exactly like I'd expect an attack that overwhelmed the available interceptor capacity to look like. If the video showed a bunch of interceptors trying to take out these incoming projectiles and failing *that* is evidence of missle interception failing. This looks like evidence that Israel doesn't have hundreds of interceptor launchers stationed around every base (it would be cost prohibitive).