A few days ago, Iran finally launched a retaliatory action against Israel, but the intensity of this "retaliation" action was not very large, and after a short attack, the Iranian side has announced the end of the operation. But despite this, we can still see from this short-lived retaliation of Iran that Iran's drones and missiles are really powerful.
According to what is now known, Iran launched 36 cruise missiles, more than 180 drones and more than 110 ballistic missiles in its military strikes on the Israeli mainland, which seems to be a lot of them. However, under the strict preparedness of the US and Western forces and Israel, most of these missiles and drones failed to hit their targets.
According to the open war report of the US military stationed in the Middle East, after the launch of Iran's missiles and drones, US troops in the Middle East immediately made a big move, and fighter jets directly went forward and shot down a large number of Iranian missiles and drones using air-to-air missiles, and the total number of drones and missiles shot down by the US military accounted for about one-third of Iran's incoming missiles and drones. In addition, the British army, the French army and even the Jordanian air force (the first time that an Arab country intercepted Iranian missiles and drones) have also been dispatched to intercept Iranian missiles and drones. In this case, the number of Iranian missiles and drones that eventually arrive on Israeli soil is already a significant reduction in itself.
In the face of the Iranian missiles and drones that finally arrived over Israel, Israel's air force and air defense forces also made a big move, and the Iron Dome system was at full speed to intercept it, according to Israel's own public information, the success rate of interception of Iranian drones by Israel and Western armed forces was 100%, that is to say, according to the public statement of the Israeli side, not a single Iranian drone hit the target, and the Israeli side also claimed that the success rate of the Israeli and US military interception of Iranian cruise missiles was also 100%.
So, why did the Iranian drones "pull their hips" so much, and according to Israel, they all missed the target (the real probability is very high)? There is also a reason for this. First of all, although there are a lot of Iranian drones, they are relatively average in terms of technical level, and the flight speed is also very slow, only two or three hundred kilometers per hour, and it even takes seven or eight hours to launch from Iran to the sky over Israel (which is why Iranian drones are still on the way, and Iran announced the end of the attack), which provides a lot of space for interception by Israel and Western armed forces. Iranian cruise missiles are in a slightly better situation, but they also take 2-3 hours to reach Israel.
Second, the U.S. military's intelligence and early warning detection system in the Middle East is very complete, and aside from the rumors that the U.S. military knew about Iran's attack in advance, it didn't take long for the Iranian drones and missiles to be launched, and the U.S. military quickly discovered these missiles and drones. In addition to informing Israel to strengthen its defenses, US fighter jets can even dispatch more than 1,000 kilometers in advance to intercept Iraq on the border with Iran, not to mention that there are Jordan and other countries that can be used as "advance measures." The advanced fighter jets of the US military, in the face of Iranian drones that fly very slowly and have no self-defense ability, are really a dozen and one accurate.
The only thing Iran has achieved (albeit not much) is Iran's ballistic missiles. The rate of fire of ballistic missiles is far from being comparable to cruise missiles and drones, and it is said that Iran's ballistic missiles only need more than 20 minutes to reach Israel, however, Iran's ballistic missiles have launched more than 100 pieces, but at present, only 7 missiles hit the Negev airbase, and 2 missiles hit the Navatim airbase, which means that the hit rate is about 10%, causing only minor losses to Israel.
The Israeli military announced that the damage caused by Iran's missiles to Israel was indeed relatively minor
In summary, we can see that the Iranian attack appeared to be a big fanfare, but in fact it was not very effective. However, there are also data showing that in order to intercept Iran's missiles and drones, Israel consumed a full $1 billion worth of various interceptor ammunition overnight, so the author believes that although Iran's missile and drone technology is not good, if Iran can "go to the volume" and launch such an attack on Israel on a daily basis, then it is very likely to be able to consume Israel's air defense ammunition and eventually "win by quantity".
End of this issue.