Because Israel is beggar-thy-neighbor all year round and is geographically almost in the center of the Middle East, it attaches great importance to the building of its air defense forces all year round, and Israel often claims to be the country with the highest density of air defense missiles in the world. At present, Israel's air defense forces are composed of the medium- and short-range "Iron Dome" system (mainly used to intercept rockets and artillery shells launched by Hamas and Allah in Lebanon), the medium- and long-range "David's Slingshot" system (used to intercept rockets and missiles with a range of 70 km to 300 km), and the "Arrow" missile defense system (the world's first practical theater ballistic missile defense system) specializing in long-range ballistic missile defense.
This time, Israel's seemingly incomparably sophisticated air defense system has been "timid" in Iran's missile and drone strikes on Israel's mainland, and even with so many missile defense systems, Iran's missiles still partially successfully hit targets in Israel. It is worth noting that in addition to Israel itself, the dispatch to intercept Iranian missiles and drones also included the help of the US military stationed in the Middle East. According to the U.S. military, the U.S. military dispatched as many as 48 advanced F-15E fighter jets and shot down a large number of Iranian drones. But despite this, while most of Iran's cruise missiles and drones have been shot down, many of Iran's ballistic missiles have successfully hit Israeli military bases. According to relevant sources, Iran's ballistic missiles have hit the Israeli Air Force where F-35 fighter jets are deployed, which undoubtedly shows that even the dispatch of Israeli air defense forces + US forces cannot completely intercept the attacks of Iranian missiles, especially ballistic missiles.
You must know that the "Arrow" missile defense system, which is specially designed to defend against ballistic missiles, itself uses a large amount of American technology, and is claimed to be the fastest flying air defense missile in the world, with a maximum interception distance of 90 kilometers and a radar warning range of 500 kilometers. But even so, Iranian missiles still broke through the air defense network established by the US-Israel coalition forces, and this rare example of actual combat also made the PLA's Dongfeng missiles more confident!
On the one hand, although Iran's missile and drone production capacity is still okay in the Middle East, it is a bit "insufficient" in the eyes of the world's largest industrial and manufacturing power. You know, according to what is known so far, Iran has only launched less than 200 drones, more than 100 ballistic missiles and dozens of cruise missiles this time. This has caused such a big problem for the US military and Israel, so if the PLA has thousands of missiles and tens of thousands of drones, how should the US military respond?
Iran's missile and drone technology, on the other hand, is not the most advanced. Our army is already a global leader in missile and UAV technology. Taking the well-known Dongfeng-17 hypersonic missile as an example, this type of missile not only has a long range and a fairly fast rate of fire, but also has a powerful ability to maneuver and change orbits, and it is extremely difficult to intercept it in terms of existing air defense means! Not to mention that we have a more advanced Dongfeng-27 as rumored!
With Iran's current missile technology, it can break through the interception of the US military. Then, once there is a "showdown" between China and the United States, our army's powerful missile forces will be enough to launch a full-scale strike against the US forces in the West Pacific in a short period of time, so that all the US military bases on the so-called "first island chain" will be "packed and taken away"!