We know from the videos of the Iranian attacks how obvious ballistic missiles are to a civilian population. But we only have videos of some anti aircraft artillery firing, presumably at drones. Doesn't that suggest that the majority of the Israeli attacks were carried out using the stealth drone mentioned in the previous leaked documents? Air launched ballistic missiles should be very obvious, surely?
Must be stealth explosions too.
Israel said they used 100 combat aircraft, that's almost half of their entire airforce, so either most abandoned mission half way for some reason, or almost all missiles launched were intercepted. There is simply no squaring Israel's claimed fleet size with the lack of any observable results.
It's actually not that unusual, every month or so Russia would say they intercepted 100+ Ukrainian home made drones the night before but very rarely does it get caught on camera, and when they do its exclusively during the day. Iran and Russia are very big places and slow missiles intercepted at night a long way from destination are almost impossible to catch on camera.
If you look at the bigger picture, Israel's weapons inventory is heavily skewed toward up close gravity bombs used against civilians and guerrilla forces in Palestine and Lebanon, neither themselves nor the US has, as we've already seen from Ukraine, the ability to field modern long range drones in any quantity, with Ukraine's drones actually almost entirely sourced from China. What Israel has are air launched cruise missiles developed decades ago with 200-300km range, which is probably what they used, but this is where Russia sending S400 comes in, not that S400 were involved in intercepting them, but because if Russia sent S400, Russia almost certainly provided other systems too.
Infact, if you really think about it, the fact that Israeli jets even need to fly over Iraq or through Azerbaijan implies they're using old missiles with limited range, old missiles that are fairly easy to intercept with Russian help. Afterall Iran with actual modern weapons didn't need to even leave their borders to rain fire on Israel.
