Iran readying 'imminent' ballistic missile attack against Israel, U.S. official tells NBC News
Iran readying 'imminent' ballistic missile attack against Israel, U.S. official tells NBC News
Israel launched a ground incursion into Lebanon as part of an attack on Hezbollah, the militant group backed by Iran.
How's the Iron Dome coverage? I imagine Iran isn't going to send very many missiles, but given it's going to be a few missiles from so far away, not a swarm of rockets from just over the border, is Iron Dome going to cover that flight profile?
Edit: yeah iron dome won't cover this, it's the Barak missiles I think. Not sure what their intercept rate is. And the US is deploying air support right now, though I haven't seen their exact destination or mission.
It will mostly be Patriot, David's Sling and Arrow according to the Wikipedia article on their defense systems.
I think Barak is mostly for Navy assets?Ah, that's the article I needed, thanks.
US or some other NATO country will likely deploy fighter jets to try and intercept it before it even reaches the Iron Dome, like they did when Iran sent that drone strike a few months back. Iran knows all this and may decide to hit Israeli troops in Lebanon instead. What ends up happening is something we'll just have to wait and see.
Modern air defense is layered, and latest generations are layered and networked.
Short, medium, and long range all have different kill methods/platforms, but may share radar and sensors suites, along with command and control systems.
The operator, system, or mixture of both, then decides which targets are threats, and which kill system to engage them with.
Welp looks like they went ahead and did it. Happy Tuesday.
Are that the same people who found Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction?
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