Don’t think that article from 2009 is still true. The USA and Israel easily shot down over a thousand missiles from Iran.
https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/why-so-many-of-us...
https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/why-so-many-of-us...
The supersonic missiles that Iran intended to get through, got through. All else was theatre.
The point was very clearly made: iron dome can be defeated with cheap drones, leaving the path clear for the supersonic missiles to land on target. Which is precisely what happened.
It was precisely the same message delivered in Irans' response to the assassination of Soleimani.
The only casualties I'm aware of were from the debris of a successful intercept. It's not like a war game, when you kill something it doesn't just turn into a boom and disappear.
The 300+ drones were there to exhaust the iron dome, which is what happened, and the hypersonic ballistic missiles were there, to demonstrate that there is no effective defense against them (because there isn't, in spite of propaganda stated otherwise). Iran made the very important point that they could launch these hypersonic missiles with impunity, but instead exercised 'restraint'. The world military communities took very specific note that these missiles are impervious to existing defense technologies, and it was not the first time Iran made this point - they also demonstrated this capability in their response to the assassination of Solemeini, placing the missiles on the berths of the people involved in the assassination...
They proved they can do it and that it is defeatable. That's a big gain, especially for those who have suffered under the repression that the iron dome protects and prolongs.
Dismissive arguments such as yours allows that suffering to continue. It can be defeated, also. Do you not observe the daily murder with earnest humanity?
This! As war is more and more about attrition who wins when a system costing 1000 to build + 1 per hour to maintain is saturated by another one costing 1 + .001 per hour, even if this last one causes no damage?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iranian_strikes_against_I...