we won't have luxury of waiting 17 hours to decide to fire first missile in response next time
This analysis that Iran’s pre-war air defense was somehow adequate is a farce.
It was held up by S-300 and 20+ year old TOR M1 and whatever left over from the old era like Hawk, S-200, BUK, rapier.
They simply weren’t producing Khordad variants, Tabas, Talash, in large enough amounts for point defense.
How many Zubin were built?
How many 9 day systems were built?
How many 15 Khordad systems were built?
How many Meharn “F-35 killer” systems were built?
How many Bavar?
How many Arman?
Etc.
You get the picture. When I asked where the satellite photos of all these amazing systems were, people on here laughed at me.
The problem with Iran and North Korea is they show you this diverse catalog of weapons. And when you look behind the curtain you realize they didn’t actually mass produce any of them.
We saw this with Iranian Humvees and MRAPs. And this idiotic leadership is now importing Russian Humvees after parading Aras for years.
Like I said, this war exposed IRGC and Iranian leadership to major corruption.
I’m sure there was a large segment that thought Israel or America would never attack Iran or dare to kill the Supreme Leader so they said why spend $30B on toys when when we can pocket half of it for ourselves? Now that segment is probably dead and if we are lucky we are seeing Iran rapidly scrambling to actually arm itself because it has just found itself in an existential crisis of its own doing!