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Shahab-3 is modified SCUD/Nodong which lacks accuracy and follows a predictable trajectory - it's food for Israeli Patriot missiles.
Iran has large numbers of SCUD-based MRBMs (Shahab 3, Ghadr, Rezvan, Emad) and smaller numbers of advanced precision-guided MRBMs (Fattah, Khorramshahr-4).
This leaves, in my view, two approaches to a large-scale missile strike against Israel:
- Use large number of SCUD-based missiles to saturate Israeli air defences and drain missile interceptors, degrading Israel's AD network, then follow-up with targeted strikes of Fattah and Khorramshahr-4, giving the best missiles the highest chance of successful impact. The US will be on hand to resupply these interceptors, so this has to happen quickly.
- Use Fattah and Khorramshahr-4 to target Israeli AD sites to degrade Israel's AD network (i.e. by targeting large radars and known SAM sites), then follow-up with large numbers of SCUD-based missiles which will be able to inflict significant damage.
The first route seems too wasteful and the IRGC seem to have designed Fattah specifically for the purpose in the second route. Of course, this ignores the role of UAVs and LACMs (and proxies).
Any attack on Israel would have to be comprehensive in scope right off the bat.
Launching thousands of suicide drones from various points across the Middle East (also Iranian soil) alongside a smaller of number of cruise missiles, should place heavy burden on their IADS. Couple that with mass launches of Ballistic Missiles from Southern and Western IRGC Aerospace bases, then you should have the numbers to punch through most defenses. Higher probability of scoring critical hits on strategic targets as well as infrastructure if done in such a way.
All that’s left is a political decision.