As the war between Israel and Iran intensifies, many are asking a pointed question:
Why are more Iranian weapons making it through Israel’s sophisticated air defense systems than in past conflicts with Hamas or Hezbollah?
The answer lies in a critical distinction—one that’s often overlooked in media coverage: the difference between rockets and missiles.
Following their announcement of aerial-superiority now over Western Iran all the way to the capital of Tehran, the Israel Defense Force has released a graphic showing all the strikes so far against Iran and what was targeted, with dozens of air-defense sites and radars having been destroyed by the Israeli Air Force.
President Trump cut short his visit to the G7 summit and returned to Washington. US Defense Secretary: "We have assets in the Middle East and we will defend them."
Despite Iranian state-run media continuing to claim that Iran is escalating and increasing the size of its attacks against Israel, the truth is much different, with tonight’s ballistic missile attack being one of the smallest since Israel began its strike campaign against Iran on Friday.
Tonight, roughly 30 ballistic missiles were launched at Israel, with only three impacts being reported, as opposed to the first night when Iran launched between 175–200 missiles and last night when they launched 75–100 missiles against Israel.
However, don’t let these numbers fool you, Iran is not running out of missiles, but it does suggest they may be running out of launchers for these medium to intermediate-range ballistic missiles that are actually able to reach Israel. It also likely suggests severe issues in command-and-control caused by the large number of senior military officials, specifically the entire top chain-of-command for the IRGC’s Aerospace Forces, that have been eliminated so...
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