Air defenses have been destroyed; that's why it flies so low and with impunity. I even saw a tanker and fighter jet refueling in the Iranian sky without any care in the world. The Iranian air defense has been likely, alongside counter intelligence, the weakest link.They are now flying beneath the cloud layer. What airdefence doing?
there are dozens of videos showing UAV being shot downAir defenses have been destroyed; that's why it flies so low and with impunity. I even saw a tanker and fighter jet refueling in the Iranian sky without any care in the world. The Iranian air defense has been likely, alongside counter intelligence, the weakest link.
Obviously enemy surveillance from the air and destruction of some launch sites is going to reduce missiles fired per day. They had a preplanned strike set up for the start of the war, that's why you saw more attacks in the first day. The real question is at what number of missiles and drones per day they stabilise. Will the enemy be able to completely suppress Iranian offensive action or not. The Ukrainian example would suggest it's almost impossible to do
What do you think about this? Is Iran's missile arsenal depleted or degraded?
Not good if that is the case
I believe this is the Yak-130 the F-35I shot down
That is a radar. If you launch a missile, and the radar stop to transmit at the expexted impact time then it been hit.I think one thing to consider is Iran must have a way to perform damage assessment to determine if a target need to be hit again, and considering AN/FPS-132 complex is in the middle of the desert within a fortified facility, they're either have HUMINT getting pretty close (relatively), or they're receiving immediate satellite intel from third party. It's also worth considering Iran is supposedly under distributed command, so how up to date targeting and damage assessment data are being disseminated is an interesting question, both for this strike and for strike on hotels housing US personnel.