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They are probably intercepting these Rezvan-type missile in exo-atmosphere. Arrow-3 has significant advantage over it at that altitude and this type of missile, and most of Iran's vertical launched BMs are not great at countering Arrow-3,
however they have very few interceptors in stock, and very few batteries in general. If it were only Patriot/Arrow-2 batteries, it could be a different story.
In the next 2 months if Houthi's can launch a mere 50-100 BMs, it would be very good. Use the cheap stuff.
so you do see the benefit now
Depends on detection. You are talking less than 8 mins of flight time with likely maybe 5 mins of that in exo state.
If you can jettison 2nd stage early and your RV is probably radar shaped it makes detection more difficult.
Arrow 3 is unique in that the range is 2400KM so it can in theory cover a wide field of protection versus Patriot and THAAD.
Few batteries don’t matter given the range. They have at least 50-100 interceptors given the unit cost of $3M/interceptor and economics of scales it makes sense to build more interceptors to reduce overall program costs.
Unlikely that Houthi’s will ever reach that rate of production. It would be surprising if they even have more than 150 long range BMs (2000KMs) in stockpile.
Yemen is under blockade you have to remember.
This benefit has always been there. Iran already knows most of Arrow-3 capabilities, data just helps solidify any question marks.
Arrow-3 isn’t a true threat to Iranian BMs since it’s basically launching a hypersonic BM to intercept another BM, these types of air defense systems are good at intercepting singular up to 5 BMs simultaneously (within 30 seconds claimed). They aren’t made to intercept a launch of 10+ BMs.
But against proxy forces that can only fire 1-2 at time with large intervals, it should provide sufficient protection as long as ISR is sufficent.
Baghdad Bob’s of the board will tell you 1000 Israeli tanks destroyed and 5000 deaths.
Reality is different. When you siege a city, time is on attackers side as we saw in Syrian war. Longer you take, the better it is as your enemy wastes more and more ammo and depletes remaining stockpiles of food/fuel/etc.
Wouldn’t surprise me if fighters are taking captagon (methamphetamines) to stay alert and have energy.
Yeah I agree but I don’t think most people (well at least I didn’t) actually thought that Hamas alone could have stood any chance.
Wishful thinking to believe Hamas in Gaza would be able to beat an IDF solely concentrated on their utter eradication. Way too much armor, constant air surveillance and heavy weapons bearing down on you. IDF is clearly happy with blowing up whatever they can’t easily get to with soldiers.
Israel wants a long war and it has been a little over a month now. Those supplies stockpiled underground will begin to run dry sooner rather than later despite what Hamas says.
Either way, Gaza is gone and there is literally nothing to show for it other than ruining IDF’s image of invincibility and killing loads of innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s image on the world stage has been battered to death (rightfully so) and their control in America will wane as Boomers, Gen-Xers and older millennials die out; leaving room for the younger generations who generally do not view Israel favorably. To take eventual leadership in the coming years.
I’m constantly flip flopping on whether or not Hezbollah will ignite the border and draw in other resistance elements, culminating in a potential Iranian intervention of some kind. But logic would dictate that this is not the case.
You are misinformed without these Arab proxies Israel and US would surround and attack iran without the fear of pay back while the only thing that keeps them away from attacking iran is the Arab proxies because they know if they attack iran throw proxies iran will attack them back with its own proxies.The money used to buy all that blown up ammo could have been used to buy some cold weather protection and weapons for Iranian border guards . I suppose defending Arab lands is more important than defending Iranian land for the Arab worshipping mullahs of Iran..
without threatening to destroy Israel we will not have US and Israel attacking us ....hence no need for proxis... hence Iranian $$$ and equipment can be used on Iranian soldiers. "chicken and egg story"..You are misinformed without these Arab proxies Israel and US would surround and attack iran without the fear of pay back while the only thing that keeps them away from attacking iran is the Arab proxies because they know if they attack iran throw proxies iran will attack them back with its own proxies.
I think this is the crux of the divergence in viewswithout threatening to destroy Israel we will not have US and Israel attacking us