2024-04-15 07:49:30
Iran launched 300 various missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) toward Israel in the early morning of the 14th (local time), but most of them were shot down. Some of these were intercepted by US and British troops stationed in the Middle East, but many were destroyed by Israeli air defenses. The interception success rate stated by Israel was 99%.
The Israeli military remained silent about exactly what weapons it used to hit Iran’s missiles and drones. However, foreign media focused on Israel’s missile defense network, including ‘Iron Dome’, and analyzed that various interceptor weapons were effective in this Iranian attack.
On this day, the CNN broadcast cited the Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) and introduced that the most basic element of Israel’s air defense network is Iron Dome, a low-altitude interception system. There are at least 19 Iron Dome batteries deployed throughout Israel. The surface-to-air interceptor missiles attached to each battery shoot down rockets, missiles, and drones within an altitude of 10 km.
Iron Dome, jointly developed by Israel’s Rafael and Israel Aerospace Industries and deployed in 2011, specializes in short-range Qassam rockets fired mainly by Hamas, a Palestinian armed faction in the Gaza Strip, and Hezbollah, a Shi’ite militant faction in southern Lebanon. This is the background of Israel, which has been fighting Hamas for over six months, on the 8th to deploy ‘Sidom’, an improved version of the Iron Dome so that it can be used at sea.
Therefore, it is assumed that all medium-to-long-range ballistic and cruise missiles and drones that flew 2,000 km from Iran were not blocked by the low-altitude interception system Iron Dome. There is a possibility that Arrow 2 and 3, a high-altitude missile interception system, may have dealt with long-range missiles and drones flying at high altitudes.
Arrow 2 is Israel’s improved version of the American medium-altitude interception system Patriot and was deployed in 2000. It strikes targets at an altitude of 50 km. Arrow 3 is an improved version of this and can intercept ballistic missiles that have gone out of space at an altitude of 100 km before they re-enter the atmosphere.
David Sling was introduced in 2017 as a medium-altitude interception system that complements the altitude gap between Iron Dome and Arrow 2 and 3. Crush targets within 15km altitude. It is named after the story of David and Goliath in the Old Testament and means ‘David’s sling’. In addition, the Patriot, which was used in the first Gulf War in 1991, is still in active service in Israel.
Iran, which identified Israel as the mastermind behind the airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria on the 1st, carried out a large-scale airstrike against Israel on this day, 15 days after announcing a retaliatory attack. This is the first time that Iran, which has turned anti-Israel since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, has directly attacked Israel.
Israeli military spokesman Maj. Gen. Daniel Hagari announced that a total of about 300 ballistic and cruise missiles and drones were launched by Iran toward Israel early this morning. Nevertheless, most of them were intercepted outside the border, so civilian casualties were found to be minor. Hagari said some of the missiles caused minor damage to an air base in Israel’s southern Negev desert and that the interception success rate was 99%. Iran ended all attacks in about 5 hours.
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2024-04-15 07:49:30