>>510565748A special investigation by the Wall Street Journal reveals how Iran learned about air defense systems during the war with Israel. According to the investigation, Tehran begin launching more advanced, longer-range missiles from a wider range of locations deep inside Iran, according to missile defense experts who analyzed the images coming from Israel.
According to the investigation, Iran also changed the timing and pattern of missile launches, expanding the geographical distribution of targets. As the war continued, Iran launched few missiles, but its success rate increased. Thus, in the first six days of the war, 8% of Iran's missiles penetrated Israel's air defense system. In the last six days, 16% of them had already penetrated the defense dome.
Iran's most successful series of strikes came on June 22, two days before the end of the war, when 10 of 27 missiles explored in Israel. “Any missile defense system, even one as finished as Israel's, will ultimately be penetrated,” said Rafael Cohen, a senior researcher on the Pentagon's research team. “The key to any air defense system is less about building a perfect system with each layer and more about the cumulative effect.”
Iran has also shifted from firing large nighttime salvos to launching smaller waves during the day and from a wide range of locations. Tehran has further tested Israel's interactions by changing its firing patterns — targeting cities far apart and varying the interactions between attacks. “They were trying to split the Israeli defense system,” said Yehoshua Kalisky, a missile defense expert at the Institute for National Security Studies.
According to the investigation, as the war continued, the declaring number of interpretations and their high cost forced Israel to reserve resources and target only the missiles from Iran that presented the greatest threat.
