There is a difference between a cruise missile and ballistic missile.
Cruise missile it is acceptable for 10%-20% failure rate
In BMs your main deterrence, Iran is carrying as high as a 30% failure rate.
Imagine if these were nuclear equipped? You would have nuclear equipped missiles landing in middle of no where
if Iran only has let’s say 5,000 BMs and 20% have failure rate and even 20% get intercepted your actual stockpile is less than half
Pathetic display by Iran. This attack would have been sufficient if the generals would keep their mouth shut and Iranian officials would keep their mouth shut. But they hyped this up to the point anything short of war would look like a failure.
These idiots in Iran Government dared to fly the Martyrdom flag of Imam Hussein and hoist it on the Mosque in Qom for this?
Iran just told the war “Iranian lives are worth less than US” “5 high ranking deaths including #2 man in Iran is not worth the life of a conscript western soldier”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if NONE of the missiles had a live warhead in them. Basically Iran shot chunks of high speed metal and targeted the runways.
Again if the generals kept their damn mouth shut and officials kept their mouth shut this would be sufficient deterrence. But they couldn’t resist running their mouths and now look like candy-asses.