This was inevitable given the economics of cheap missile vs expensive anti-missile missile, especially if/when it takes multiple interceptors to take down one incoming missile. Bespoke wunderweapons are more or less fine and good if you get to use them in limited or relatively controlled circumstances (ex defending against smaller barrages from Gaza/Lebanon) but the second they’re faced with significant opposition from a peer enemy then you find out why quantity has a quality all of it’s own
It’s kind of insane that every hardkill system designed so far fails at either “what if you just throw a bit of rubbish at it first” or “what if there’s more than one missile”
I feel that they never expected that an organized state fought back.
So long as these interceptions have to rely on physical ammunition and all of the limitations that entails the attacker will always have the advantage. If you can only launch X number of interceptors even if you have a 100% success rate all it takes to defeat it is launching X+Y missiles and you know Y number of missiles will get through. And since simple missiles are always going to be cheaper than expensive interceptors you’re almost guaranteed to be able to defeat defence systems provided you have the capability to launch enough rockets
That´s the missile warfare equivalent of a meat wave attack: throw in more bodies than the enemy has bullets. Russian style.
That was CIA/Ukraine propaganda
It’s what Ukraine was doing. Russia has like 1 death to every 10 of Ukraine’s
Nazi Propaganda, in fact. “Asiatic Hordes” overcoming “Brave German Super Soldiers”
IF I were China I’d Be sending so very very many Machine Parts to Iran rn. And if I were Iran I’d be keeping my hypersonic powder dry and launching a steady stream of shit tier drones.
Drones don’t get close enough (or fly high enough) to trigger inceptors, but they DO get the entity’s fighter jets (that take 4-12 man hours to maintain per hour of flight) to scramble.
Depends on the drone in question, and some people have developed “semi-decoys” that are basically fixed wing drones or cheap cruise missiles that have enough payload to not be ignorable but also are screens for the hypersonics and more powerful munitions.
Why should we believe this is true and not a ploy to get direct us intervention
We know this to be true because we know the US has very low production capacity for these types of missiles, and a large chunk of them have already been spent in Ukraine. Each attempt at an intercept requires 2-4 missiles to be launched, and Iran has been pounding Israel with hundreds of missiles for around a week now. The math does not work for Israel here.
yeah i thought they had like a month left. maybe that’s what this article says, idk, can’t bypass the paywall
yogthos virtually always posts an archive link to articles
I think the real ploy behind the scenes is much more akin to nuclear blackmail. I think Netanyahu is telling Trump, “we need to destroy these deeply buried enrichment sites. Either the US help us and use your bunker buster bombs, or Israel will be forced to use its nukes to take them out.”
Nukes will do nothing to buried sites.
Thots and playas to the nasty ass hustlas of pissrael.
lol
this with the shipments from the US directly before they decided to launch their attack? color me surprised.
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