In related news--water is wet, fire is hot and concrete floors are hard.
Israel concealed that Iranian missiles hit several key military sites across the country during the recent 12-day war, The Telegraph reported on Saturday, citing radar data. The data, provided to the British paper by Oregon State University researchers who track bomb damage using satellite radar, indicates that six Iranian missiles hit five military facilities in the north, south, and center of Israel, including a major air base, an intelligence gathering center, and a logistics base. The extent of the reported damage is unclear. However, the hits were not publicly reported due to heavy military censorship, according to the report. When pressed on the issue, the Israel Defense Forces, declined to comment, only saying that “all relevant units maintained functional continuity throughout the operation.”
But this is not what catches an eye, no. This does:
Analysis cited by The Telegraph suggests that Israeli and US air defenses generally performed well, intercepting most of the incoming fire, although the share of missiles that penetrated through Israeli defenses rose to about 16% by the seventh day. The paper noted that this could have been linked with Israeli attempts to conserve ammunition, improved tactics by Iran, or the deployment of more advanced and harder-to-intercept weaponry.
This is an utter BS, concocted for hiding a devastating effect of Iranian strikes and a pathetic performance by Israeli-US AD, which led Israel to begging for a cease-fire. A "performance" corroborated by a dismal (lack of) effectiveness of NATO AD complexes in 404--which IS a feature of all West's AD systems. While classifying the impact of strikes is understandable, claims of 84% "effectiveness", especially from some "researches" from Oregon State University are down right propaganda, considering the well established trend of most US "academe" and military accepting Ukrainian propaganda about shooting down "most" of Russian drones and missiles, including hypersonic ones. Where are, one may ask, those "satellite radar" data on Yuzhmash? I thought so.
This is Nevatim base last year.
You can all see how "effective" Israeli AD is, all 84% of it/s.
