Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and other Related Conflicts in the Middle East (read the rules in the first post)
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Once the motors cuts out it cannot be tracked by IR - detecting the plume is not tracking the bus. It can only be tracked by radar if it rises above the local radar horizon. Russian ICBMs are specifically designed for a very short boost phase to minimize the time that IR satellites can track the motor burn and cue radars.
There's a reason why China strongly opposed THAAD in South Korea and built new silos outside of the northeast.
That's only half the equation. How do you know how many missiles were launched? Are you inserting your own figures of launched projectiles to manipulate the intercept rate to your liking?
Heat plume is behind it, not on it. Heat guidance requires an IR-seeker. TPY-2 does not have an IR-seeker. Tracking a target is not the same as locking a target and guiding an interceptor to it.
It heats up as it travels through the atmosphere at Supersonic, then hypersonic speed. How do you think modern heatseekers work? They can pick up aerodynamic heating.
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Only during the terminal phase. There's no air in space.
Modern heatseekers lock onto engines for the most part.
Shortly before the missile attack, a mass shooting occurred in Tel Aviv. As police were investigating the area, they found themselves seeking shelter from incoming missiles
That was this strike
There's no heating up in space. If heat is the source of interception, then the interceptions are happening either at launch or at terminal phase which we can see in the videos as not much intercepting. At launch, the missile will go into space in a matter of minutes; really not enough time for any intercepting. In fact, we cannot even see more than a few interceptor launches from the ground.
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Really interested to get some satellite photos over the next couple of days to see what damage has been done. Nevatim Airbase in particular seemed to get hit hard. Assuming those strikes are on target, that base could have suffered heavy damage.
The colonialist Starmer got a bit emotional (but still maintained a robotic appearance) over the attack on his colonialist "innocent Israelis" brethren.
Sullivan claims the US is looking for the appropriate steps to "promote stability to the maximum extent possible", aka bomb more condos full of civilians and settle more land.
I think this was a very successful attack by Iran. It gave a much needed morale boost to their allies in the region and demonstrated to the adversaries that Iran isn't a paper tiger and can back their allies and strike targets and bypass advanced air defence systems on demand. Iran has also demonstrated that they are moral and can make the very easy to make distinction between civilian and military. They did this during this strike and the one before it. This is something the West couldn't even do in their dreams and never even wanted to do outside of them. The attack will also likely bring about major political damage and embarrassment to Netanyahu, who's political position is already on thin ice. He will defnitely lash out now and do even more damage to the US reputation.
Should the US retaliate against Iranian infrastructure such as oil refineries, civilian nuclear facilities etc., Iran has provided them with solid proof that they too can do that and strike their assets in the region. The IRGC said their next retaliation would be "100 times harder than this time". Iran can also close down the Strait of Hormuz and cause all kinds of problems, should they feel the need to do so.
Sullivan claims the US is looking for the appropriate steps to "promote stability to the maximum extent possible", aka bomb more condos full of civilians and settle more land.
I think this was a very successful attack by Iran. It gave a much needed morale boost to their allies in the region and demonstrated to the adversaries that Iran isn't a paper tiger and can back their allies and strike targets and bypass advanced air defence systems on demand. Iran has also demonstrated that they are moral and can make the very easy to make distinction between civilian and military. They did this during this strike and the one before it. This is something the West couldn't even do in their dreams and never even wanted to do outside of them. The attack will also likely bring about major political damage and embarrassment to Netanyahu, who's political position is already on thin ice. He will defnitely lash out now and do even more damage to the US reputation.
Should the US retaliate against Iranian infrastructure such as oil refineries, civilian nuclear facilities etc., Iran has provided them with solid proof that they too can do that and strike their assets in the region. The IRGC said their next retaliation would be "100 times harder than this time". Iran can also close down the Strait of Hormuz and cause all kinds of problems, should they feel the need to do so.