Although Israel claims to have intercepted 99% of drones and missiles, with the leak of video footage, it is widely believed that Israel's air defense system has basically reached its limit under Iran's large-scale air strikes, especially the interception of terminal acceleration missiles and hypersonic missiles is not ideal.
U.S. military experts believe that at least seven hypersonic missiles have hit Israeli military targets, but Neta has announced that he will not continue to retaliate because Biden has expressed his disapproval of Israel's counterattack.
The deeper reason is that Israel is unable to intercept Iran's hypersonic missiles and new missiles, and that Israel's military targets would have suffered heavy losses had it not been for the assistance of 10 countries and Iran's own desire to escalate the situation.
These hypersonic missiles hit Israel's Nevatim airbase and Ramon airbase, once again proving the flaws of Israeli air defenses, including the so-called "Iron Dome" system. Not only that, but Israel spent about $1 billion on a one-night defense, while Iran attacked less than a tenth.
This means that if Israel continues to retaliate against Iran, then Iran has the ability to exhaust Israel's military resources and even drag it into the war poverty trap. So, while Israel has announced that it will respond to Iran in other ways, it is widely believed that Israel has no choice but to strike precisely at Iran's nuclear facilities.
Iran's "Fatah" hypersonic missile is an "independently developed" missile officially announced only last year, with a maximum flight speed of Mach 15 and a maximum range of 1,400 kilometers.
The warhead of the "Fatah" series is equipped with a rocket engine, which can accelerate again and fly autonomously after being separated from the main thruster, so although the United States and the West are trying their best to assist Israel, they can only sigh with admiration. In fact, "Fatah" is only an entry-level hypersonic missile, that is, a bi-cone configuration. Iran is also developing a high-end waverider gliding configuration.
The Fatah missile can theoretically reach targets in Israeli territory within 7 minutes. And this leaves only a very narrow space for detection and interception operations, even for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. The actual use of Iran's high-speed missiles this time has further increased its confidence in increasing its research and development, and Israel will inevitably consider the scenario of not being able to defend itself against high-speed missiles when it strikes at Iran in the future.
There are two other important reasons why Israel does not dare to act rashly again: one is that Iran has the ability to expand such air strikes by more than 10 times, and the other is that the United States and the West actually only help intercept them, but do not support their counterattack. This shows that although Biden pays lip service to unconditional support for Israel, in practice he has no interest in getting caught up in a Middle East war.
In fact, even the continued support of the United States and the West for Israel's military campaign to carry out indiscriminate attacks in the Gaza Strip has lost its meaning, and Israel has been unable to complete its rhetoric of "eliminating Hamas" except for the loss of more Palestinian civilians. Therefore, the dual role of "arsonist and firefighter" in the United States can no longer be played.
The only variable for Israel now is whether Neta will step down ahead of schedule and whether he will replace someone with more vicious means to take office, otherwise Israel will have completely failed from the current situation. #以军称伊朗的袭击将 "Responded" ##伊朗为何此时向以色列发起报复行动#