A newspaper reported New York Times that Israel Take off interceptor missiles against Drivers aircraft And Iranian missiles are more than they can produce, quoting sources of saying that this matter raised questions within the Israeli security establishment about whether their air defenses missiles will be running out, with the continuation of the war, before they are used Iran Her ballistic arsenal.
She said that Israeli army He was already forced to rationalize the use of interceptor missiles and give more priority to defending populated areas and strategic infrastructure, according to 8 former and current officials.
I mentioned in a report for its correspondents in Jerusalem AndTel AvivThere are two workers who will help define the Israeli -Iranian war; They are Israel’s bachelor’s reserves and Iranian long -range missiles.
It was quoted by Brigadier Ran Kawakhaf – who led the Israeli air defense system until 2021 and is still serving in the military reserve – that the interceptor missiles are not “rice beads”, and that their number is limited and thus the preservation of Israeli interceptor missiles is a real challenge.
Budget
At the outbreak of the war, some Israeli officials estimated that Iran possessed nearly two thousand ballistic missiles. Israeli officials, who were quoted by the newspaper, say that Iran has exhausted from one third to half of these missiles, either by firing it towards Israel, or because Israel struck the buns that were stored in it.
Iran has begun to reduce the firing of the missiles, perhaps it was destroyed by it that it would exhaust the inventory of it, according to the New York Times, which also reported that the Iranian mission is United Nations She did not respond to her request to comment on this topic.
It is not only limited to Iran, as Israel itself exhausts its interceptor missiles. According to the Israeli army, the total of the missiles launched by Iran until Wednesday morning reached 400 missiles, about 40 of which managed to avoid air defense systems and hit neighborhoods in Israel. As for the remaining 360 missiles, either by Israeli missiles, or were monitored as they were falling into an empty land or at sea, as the Israeli army claims.
According to the New York Times correspondents, no Israeli official will disclose the number of interceptor missiles that remained at the disposal of Israel; Disclosure of such a hidden secret may give Iran a military advantage, and it will affect Tel Aviv’s ability to continue a long -term war.
The future of the conflict
However, as part of the nature of the war lies – in the opinion of the newspaper – whether it is the American president Donald Trump He will decide to join Israel in attacking the Iranian nuclear enrichment site in a facility Fordo North Iran, or whether it is Tehran She will give up her program to fertilize such an intervention.
But from the newspaper’s point of view that the end of the war will also be determined by the extent of the two parties to bear the damages that will be caused by their economies, as well as the impact of this on the morale of their peoples due to the increasing number of civilian deaths.
The New York Times went on to say that some Israelis feel that it was time to end the war before the Israeli defenses were exposed to a severe test.
At least 24 Israelis have been killed in the war, and more than 800 people were wounded, numbers described by the New York Times already raised as Israeli standards.
The death toll can rise sharply if the Israeli army is forced to reduce the use of interceptor missiles in order to provide long -term protection for some strategic sites, such as Dimouna reactor Al -Nawawi south of the country or the military command headquarters in Tel Aviv.