A member of the Israeli military stands alongside one of the Iranian missiles shot down by Israel and its allies over the weekend.
Posted on 04/17/2024 10:46:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
Half of the Iranian missiles launched at Israel over the weekend were duds, misfiring because of “technical issues” — while US forces shot down nearly all of the rest, a report said Tuesday.
Of the more than 330 missiles and armed drones fired by the Iranian military Saturday night, only about 165 actually got airborne and headed toward their target, Israel, a senior US Air Force officer told the outlet the Intercept, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
“US intelligence estimates that half of the weapons fired by Iran failed upon launch or in flight due to technical issues,” the source said.
Then US forces — and not Israeli air defenses — took out the majority of the surviving rockets, the Air Force officer said.
Iranian missiles raining down over Israel on Saturday. Most of the missiles were intercepted and didn't make landfall
Only about nine of the intact missiles ended up making landfall in Israel, with one person, a 7-year-old girl, reported injured, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Despite the lack of damage, Iranian leaders said their attack had “achieved all of its goals.”
More than 80 of the rockets were shot down by US aircraft, with more being taken out by American warships in the Mediterranean, sources told the Intercept.
British, French and even Jordanian aircraft helped dispatch the rest.
Shortly after the attack Saturday, President Biden said US forces took out “nearly all” the Iranian rockets, which were fired from locations in Iran, Yemen, Syria and Iraq.
The “vast majority” of those rockets were taken out before they reached Israeli airspace, according to the Israeli Air Defense Forces.
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A member of the Israeli military stands alongside one of the Iranian missiles shot down by Israel and its allies over the weekend.
The Iranian military is a paper tiger and a bunch of blustering posers. All hat and no cows.
So is the russian military. Both are still dangerous to a degree.
All turban, no genie..................
Interesting. Were the duds defective or just blanks designed to draw fire?
Could it be they have no t enough munitions.
How many missiles that we shot down were paid for by American taxpayers?
Duds or decoys?
Iran’s new Mullah Missile
what were the cost of the iron dome missiles used?
we are so eager to ascribe anything The Stable Genius does that isn’t a complete blumpkination ad 3456789-D chess…can we admit for a minute that Iran was engaging in mere 3-d chess? And why do we trust our lying bunch of liars only some of the time?
—> senior US Air Force officer told the outlet the Intercept, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
That looks like a piece of a small (Scud derivative?) ballistic missile, and it does not look even remotely banged up enough. Something has been ripped off the open end ... other than that ... I would expect it to be severely dented and bent. Are my expectations incorrect?
Landed in a sand dune?.....................
Why is anyone believing anything from the media?
That lady is standing next to a long tube that looks largely undamaged. It could be anything.
Dune ...
Is it the fossilized remains of a Sand Worm?
Translation: without allied air defenses Iran's attack would have been even more devastating.
When Sand Worms die, either through immense old age, accident or are killed, they immediately break down into millions of ‘Sand Trout’ (Little Makers), each of which will either eventually become a Sand Worm or become part of a living barrier to water that is poisonous to Sand Worms...................
“Then US forces — and not Israeli air defenses — took out the majority of the surviving rockets, the Air Force officer said.”
Why the emphasis by an anonymous source to make it look like Israel did little to protect itself?
I don’t understand why Joe Biden would have someone say this, even if it were true.
My BS meter pegged reading this:
1. The term “dud” is used to describe a failure in the firing train of a warhead
2. The Air Force did’t “take out the majority of the missiles” - the drones, maybe - but the USAF wouldn’t likely have any ability to take out ballistic missiles over Israeli cities as was visible during the attack
Sounds like an Air Force blowhard at work.
Preening for the media, yes, but also at the same time denigrating Israeli IDF...............
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