>>507577375because ballistic missiles can be taken down anywhere on their trajectory, so the Iranians are better off with barrage missiles.
Isreal has to fire 8 interceptors at once barrage missile, iran fires a hundred barrage missiles, easy win.
>>507579952The old missiles had tritium, which is the hard part to manufacture and why you'd scrap them. Iran can make flux compression lenses so for every obsolete munition they scrap they can manufacture 3 modern thermonuclear warheads.
The bulk fission material Iran can manufacture domestically, that's the easy part. energy intensive, but not hard. you are just neutron bombing with heavy water.
Isreal is small, really small, unlike Iran, which is huge. A single 50kt warhead would flatten most of telaviv, and which point the military issue would actually be Golan. But it's worth pointing out, that if isreal looses Golan they lose Telaviv as well. Bespite their money, Isreal is a very small country which relies on allied air power to protect itself. and after Gaza, willingness top protect Isreal is mixed outside the US.