Oh no the consequences of my actions!

Are we supposed to feel sorry for them now?

Wow, they didn't stop to check that before starting a war? That seems ill advised.

Americans are running low on jobs, food, money, health care, education, legal due process, civil rights, and now self respect. A lot of which is due to zionists effing everything up. I hope they have zero interceptors and have to pursue peace instead.

So, basically attacking a country that has been preparing for this war for 20 years might turn out to bite them in the ass?

Well that's too bad.

Anyways.. Anyone have a suggestions what to have for dinner?

This seems like the thing you check before you attack a world power so you can bully your neighbors and steal their homes, but what do I know?

I plead for journalists to actually inform themselves about the subject before they write.... :o

Israel has other ways to defend against Iranian missiles during the war, including via fighter jets, but the interceptors are among the most effective defensive weapons against long-range fire. Its Iron Dome missile defense system is designed to repel more short-range fire.

They speak of Iron Dome (short range, for slow rockets from inside the atmosphere) and THAAD (high altitude, for fast missiles re-entering from space) interchangeably. And they even mention fighter aircraft, which cannot do jack in either case.

The currently relevant scenarios:

• Hezbollah shoots unguided rockets at Israel -> Iron Dome intercepts maybe 15% of them (if the trajectory looks dangerous enough), and this costs about 10 times as much as the whole rocket salvo.

• Iran shoots an IRBM at Israel -> the IRBM splits up in space into cluster munitions -> Israel can intercept the MIRV bus (cluster munition housing), but it's empty at the time of getting intercepted. Not much point. And doing it would cost at least 10 times as much as the incoming missile did.

A missile defense system, in this case, cannot do jack either. For this type of attack, defense would have a point if one was expecting to get nuked, becuause a nuclear-armed reentry vehicle cannot be made arbitrarily small, and the cost of leaving it un-intercepted would be extremely tragic.

In case of these projectiles, which are conventional and unguided in their final stage, one has to simply absorb the hits. This is the cost of war. And try to find the other guy's launchers, and try to prevent them from producing more.

And I'm not shedding any tears for Israel in this case. It definitely sucks to be bombed with cluster munitions, but they started this round of fighting, killed most people who they might have negotiated with, and aren't even new to using forbidden kinds of weapons (e.g. cluster munitions made of white phosphorus).

Well, sucks to start a war without the necessary means.

How many interceptors does Gaza or Lebanon have left?

And this will be used as nothing but an excuse to send Israel and arms manufacturers more money unfortunately.

Remember, USA had to go in, because Israel was going to attack Iran nomatter what.

That's okay, Americans will buy more while their infrastructure crumbles.

You sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.

For humanity to progress we're going to need people to learn the lesson that militaristic expansion will end your civilization.

Israel is also an aggressive, dishonest, genocidal ethnostate, supplied by the most overgrown military apparatus in human history.

Citizens in Israel and the U.S. have an obligation to change our governments and societies for the sake of the entire world. Until then, pearl-clutching over justified blowback deserves no sympathy.

Okay?

Gotta send them $1B I guess

Can they use the Jewish space lasers instead?

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"Critically low" is still too many

Forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't part of the Christian Nationalists crazy view about armagedon is that Israel gets blown up? I think that is part of the plan.

Good?

i saw an interesting take the other day claiming the Iron Dome is fake, and just a fireworks show

They decided to start a war knowing their defensive tools were already critically low... Was the plan really all just hubris thinking Iran would just rollover in 24 hours? Even a child playing a FPS knows to reload their weapon before going on the attack.

Oh don’t worry, the dumbass in the White House will give them more

A bit like the he planning that got the Straights of Hormuz closed and US allies in the ME bombed. Brilliant!