>>63903750>And those are pretty good numbers for the most heavily defended airspace in the worldThat's getting lost in the sauce, dude. Missiles aren't an end in and of themselves. Unless you can achieve some sort of actual objective, there's no point to launching an attack. The fact that the Israeli ABM network not being 100% effective is being held up as some sort of triumph is pretty damning evidence that the Iranians didn't achieve much of anything with their missile campaign. Certainly nothing commensurate with the amount of resources they poured into their MRBM and IRBM programs over the last two decades. And deep down, Iranian supporters know that's true because they feel the need to insist there's been massive damage inflicted somewhere offscreen but that the Israelis have (somehow) managed to successfully hide all of it.
Calling the Iranian's performance "pretty good" on the basis that some of their rockets managed to land in Israel reminds me of the story of the native gunners who spent all day firing at a flagstaff and cheered when they finally hit it--- all because it was only part of the enemy fort they could see from where they were standing.