Some of the missiles reportedly struck “Israel’s” Nevatim Air Force base, which is one of “Israel’s” largest airports and is the main base for F-35 fighter jets.
Some of the missiles reportedly struck “Israel’s” Nevatim Air Force base, which is one of “Israel’s” largest airports and is the main base for F-35 fighter jets.
You’re not going to have much success using the Patriots against modern ballistic missiles, as Ukraine has found out. And as the Israeli military bases protected by Patriots found out yesterday. It’s interceptor missiles are too slow. You need something like the Arrow intercept system with Arrow 2 and 3 interceptor missiles that travel at Mach 9+ to stand a chance of shooting down ballistic missiles mid flight. Israel has used this system to intercept ballistic missiles launched from Yemen before. But obviously against a combined multi layered attack by Iran the system got overwhelmed.