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Iran's ‘Trial & Error' Tactic ‘Forced' Israel To ‘Ration' Interceptors, ‘16% Missiles Hit Target'

Iran's ‘Trial & Error' Tactic ‘Forced' Israel To ‘Ration' Interceptors, ‘16% Missiles Hit Target'

News1817-07-2025
Iran is said to have employed a 'trial and error' tactic to identify gaps in Israel's famed air defence systems during the recent 12-day war with its arch-foe. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal on July 16, citing missile defence analysts who reviewed missile debris and open-source data.Tehran reportedly pierced Israel's defences with increasing success, showing that even the world's most advanced systems can be penetrated. The Islamic Republic began launching more advanced, longer-range missiles from a "wider range of locations deep inside Iran', the report said. The Iranian military also altered the timing and pattern of attacks and increased the geographic spread of targets, the analysts found, as per WSJ.Iran also pivoted from firing large overnight barrages to launching smaller waves during daylight hours and from a wider variety of locations. As the war progressed, Iran fired fewer missiles, but its success rate rose, as per the WSJ analysis of data from think tanks based in Israel and Washington. In the first half of the conflict, 8% of Iran's missiles slipped through Israel's defences, the data cited by the Journal showed. However, by the second half of the war, 16% got past Israel's interceptors, according to data by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, or JINSA, noted.Iran's most successful set of attacks came on June 22, two days before the end of the war, when 10 out of 27 missiles hit Israel, according to the JINSA data. n18oc_world n18oc_crux0:00 INTRODUCTION3:42 DID US FIRE AGM-158C ANTI-SHIP MISSILE AT IRAN'S ALLY?5:58 IRAN SEEKS BACKING FROM ALLIES CHINA & RUSSIA?
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