This might be an answer to the biggest question today: why does the airspace suddenly seems penetrable, even against a wounded Tehran military?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45230011

March 30, 2026

A month into the U.S. military campaign against Iran, Israel’s vaunted air defense system is showing its limits. Just in the past 10 days, major cities including Tel Aviv, Dimona, and Arad sustained significant damage when Iranian missiles successfully evaded Israel’s network of interceptors.

The most obvious explanation for the apparent failures is that depletion of Israel’s interceptor stockpiles is forcing the Israel Defense Forces to ration munitions or prioritize targets. But the faults in Israel’s air defenses almost certainly have deeper roots. After all, even if forced to defend only the most important locations, Israel would almost certainly place Dimona — a city located near several of Israel’s key nuclear facilities — at the top of the list.

The more worrisome reality is that gaps in Israel’s air defenses may be detection (rather than interception) failures resulting from damage to the radars and sensors that underlie the integrated air defense network shared by the United States, Israel, and Gulf partners. If true, the implications would be dire. Operating without the “eyes” that the American military relies on to identify and mitigate threats, U.S. forces and assets would be much more vulnerable than previously understood.

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
      791·
      1 day ago

      Competency is woke. This is the new leathal maga army. That’s not afraid to fuck up badly, as long as it felt right. And never accept responsibility or consequences. Responsibility and consequences are woke too.

    • DaMummy@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      For the Greater Israel to become a superpower, not only does the Persian empire have to fall, but the American empire does as well.

      • Tarambor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        13 hours ago

        Israel only continues to exist because of US backing. If the US is unable to continue to supply Israel with money, arms, ammunition and to use it’s veto in the UN against any action the UN wants to take against Israel then Israel is done.

        • DaMummy@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          Fortunately for Israel, they own every branch of the US government, multiple three letter agencies, old school media, and new school media in the US, comedy(except for very few comedians) and music record labels throughout the US.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        16 hours ago

        Greater Israel is fully predicated on the US backstopping its existence, both politically and militarily.

        Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, and now I guess Syria all align with Israel due to an enormous American boot on their collective necks. As soon as that weight is seen to lift up, you’re going to get a full blown Congolese War between the various tin pot dictators and aristocratic despots.

        Israelis simply don’t have the manpower to control more territory. Their plans to settle the West Bank and Gaza are heavily predicated on damned near every Jew left on earth moving into their domain. And even then - so many of the Israel Jews hate one another, hate their Christian neighbors, hate their Arab co-conspirators, and hate their European financiers. This isn’t sustainable in any material way. Not without the world’s largest economy propping them up.