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I'm kinda skeptical of the "running out of interceptors" claim, seems too good to be true. Like in mid 2022 when we were all going "europe is gonna freeze in the winter and stop supporting ukraine".
Could also be misdirection from the idf
I agree it maybe a little too good to be true, but this has been our contention for a long while now, that the interceptor missiles for blowing up missiles are far more expensive and difficult to produce than the missiles themselves. We've even seen this with Yemen, let alone Iran. Likewise, what would the "misdirection" on the IDF be? We're seeing their interception rates decline. Iran shoots small waves of missiles and achieves lots of direct hits. What exactly is the point of telling Iran that they're running out of interceptors? To bait them into shooting more missiles at Israel that are going to hit more targets?
Yes, except iran wouldn't be hitting more targets since the idf would have more interceptors than they'd be letting the iranians believe.
Though like you said iran has been able to make it past plenty of interceptors anyway
Yeah that's what I mean, Iran surely has the ability to determine how many missiles are getting through. They can clearly see that many are. The only "feint" here is that Israel would have to be intentionally letting missiles through so that Iran makes a bigger launch and then they can intercept all of them which is uh confused.