Iron Dome doesn't work as well against the Iranian made ballistic missiles. Even the Sling of David is only designed for defence against drones and very close ballistic missile interception.
This wasn't a choreographed, well warned in advanced attack. This was an attack that took 12 minutes to reach Israel, with only an hour or two's notice from Amercian Intelligence.
Idk, I have been reading about an impending missile barrage from Iran at least since yesterday, and if that is breaking in the 'normal' news I have to imagine they had much more advance notice than the general public. They may have had only 12 minutes to react, but it's not like they haven't had time to plan contingencies. This wasn't a surprise.
That's like just daily life for Israel and is part of military doctrine where you fake it so often your opponent has less window to recognize when you've actually done it for real. These ballistic missiles can basically hit any target in Israel whereas the defensive tech doesn't cover the whole country so it's not as simple as saying "this wasn't a surprsie".
Like imagine you have a bully that does the make you flinch thing every time they see you for years and then one day they don't just make you flinch they beat the piss out of you for 30 seconds. Now imagine being told "we'll you should have seen it coming"
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u/Cakeski Oct 01 '24
Iron Dome doesn't work as well against the Iranian made ballistic missiles. Even the Sling of David is only designed for defence against drones and very close ballistic missile interception.
This wasn't a choreographed, well warned in advanced attack. This was an attack that took 12 minutes to reach Israel, with only an hour or two's notice from Amercian Intelligence.