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Israeli certainly had the advantage in the air, but I think it's an exaggeration to say that Iranian "air defenses simply ceased to exist".

Didn't Israel use a standoff weapon to attack the unfinished IR-40 reactor? Is this not an indication that they still worried about Iranian AD, even when attacking such a a relatively remote and unimportant target in western Iran several days into the conflict?

There's also footage of what looks like Spice-1000 standoff bombs being used

Iran also released footage of AD downing some Hermes-900 and Eitan drones