Iran fires drones, missiles at Israel in first-ever direct attack; IDF downing them
Iran fires drones, missiles at Israel in first-ever direct attack; IDF downing them
Iran on Saturday night launched a large wave of attack drones from its territory toward the Jewish state, in the first-ever direct attack on Israel by the Islamic Republic, with warning sirens activated in Israeli communities throughout the country early Sunday as the military worked to intercept the Iranian aircraft.
Footage of the Iranian attack over Jerusalem's Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif
Netanyahu wants conflict with Iran, it distracts from both the genocide he's perpetrating and the spectacular intelligence failure of his administration that allowed the initial Hamas attack in the first place. This is why Netanyahu attacked Iranian
militaryassets first. He deliberately provoked this.This is an interesting attack from an economic standpoint. While the cruise and ballistic missiles were worth the cost of interception, the shahed drones cost much, much less than the cost if intercepting (a fact frustrated Ukrainian air defense could talk all day about). Since about the 1990’s we’ve been in a situation where often the missile costs less than the enemy aircraft intercepted… but the cost of the missile va the drone cost has created a huge economic disparity in war. You have to pay the price to prevent death and damage, but a drone can now bleed a country in the pocket book without killing a person.
When viewed from this perspective, the iranian attack takes a new light. Sure, they announced the attack, and then made it, and the weapons were mostly downed. But at the end of the day, israel will spend 5:1 (at least) for the victory. A few weeks of this, and israel would run out of interceptor rounds and be taking serious hits… the answer to which, is… pay millions and millions to avoid this possibility, by overstocking interceptor missiles.
there are more answers to this. just to name a few:
- infiltrate the attacking country and replace leaders with friendly puppets
- diplomacy
- nuke the shit out of the attacking country
the economic imbalance just forces the other side to act more quickly
Hamas and Hezbollah have been launching near daily rocket attacks on civilian targets for over 6 months now. This attack is larger than the usual daily salvos, but still smaller than what Hamas launched on the first day.
It will be incredibly interesting to see if they continue to launch rockets after Iron Beam is deployed operationally with a marginal cost of interception far lower than the cost of a rocket or drone.
What we know so far in regard to the Iranian attack on Israel:
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10 year old Bedouin severely injured
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Negev Air Base received light infrastructure damage
For Iran it was an embarrassment.
An embarrassment? They announced the attack before it began and then undertook it in an highly telegraphed manner. They specifically only did so to respond to Israel's illegal bombing of one of their diplomatic embassies.
Fuck Iran and fuck Hamas and all the other terrorist groups Iran funds, but Israel broke international law by bombing an Iranian diplomatic outpost, and then Iran returned fire in a token and intentionally non destructive manner. They then announced that the bombings would cease if there was no further response, and did so.
If anything Iran just pulled off a diplomatic win by looking like the adult in the room compared to Israel's ill-considered actions. They just made Israel look even more reactionary and disjointed as a nation-state, right after the extremely public and recklessly callous aid worker murder fuck ups in their Palestinian war.
Iran just headed off a regional war that Israel tried to start. This was an Iranian diplomatic victory.
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Iran has officially declared the start of the attack on Israel. "The evil regime will be punished," its leader said.
Iran, the Houthis from Yemen, Syria, Hezbollah are performing massive strikes on Israel with drones and missiles. Over 200 combat drones and missiles are in the air - media.
Iran's defense minister: "We will also perform a strike on those who open their airspace or territory to Israel to attack Iran."
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Fire, meet gas
