Now that satellite imagery is out we can talk about operation truthful promise:
The retaliation strike by Iran was both politically and militarily brilliant. Iran gave a heads up to everyone, letting them know about the attack so that Israel could defend itself. America,France and the UK all had time to get their air/naval assets in place to help with AA/AD. This allowed Israel to focus on ballistic missles more exclusively.
On April 14, U.S. officials singled out the role of F-15E Strike Eagles from the 494th Fighter Squadron and the 335th Fighter Squadron in downing more than 70 Iranian drones. But on April 15, a U.S. official noted that F-16s were involved in the shoot-downs as well.
U.S. officials said the Iranian attack consisted of more than 100 ballistic missiles, 30 land-attack cruise missiles, and 150 drones. The U.S. said it intercepted missiles and drones en route to Israel, launched from Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. U.S. and Israeli officials said that “99 percent” of the drones and missiles were intercepted. The majority were taken out by Israel, a senior U.S. official said. British and French fighters also took down some drones.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/usaf-fighters-shoot-down-iranian-drones-in-defense-of-israel/Now here's where it gets interesting; shahed 136 drones and shitty Paveh cruise missiles launched from Iran are so retardedly easy to shoot down that its not even worth mentioning. They have pre-determined flight paths that are easy to intercept.These were launched simply to deplete Israel of its 2-6million dollar arrow 2/3 missles and America's aim-120 Amraams and thus giving Israel the 99% interception rate.
Now for the ballistic missles: Iran shot 3 unimportant and old variants: 20 year old Ghadrs, 10 year old Emads and 10 year old dezfuls. Again these are uninteresting and easy to shoot down, as almost all of them were.
However; in the midst of the chaos, Iran also fired a handful of its new solid state fuel hypersonic Kheybar-Shekan missles. These were fired from underground mobile missle silos (yes you read that correctly) meaning Israel/America had no isr or "eyes" on these before they were launched.
9 of these missles with their terminal velocity booster packs were able to successfully provide evasive maneuvers (this is the big deal part) during its descent and COMPLETELY bypassed all layers of israeli air defense.
Mount hermon, nevatim air base and Ramon air base were all hit with pin-point accuracy (hence zero civilian casualties)
These are the same missles that Iran has exported to hezbollah and the houthis.
So, in summary, Israel get its 99% political interception rate and Iran gets its " our key boys beat your defense" victory. Also of note, Many names was right, the iron beam was used and is now fully operational so he's got some pretty bangin Intel.
Tl;dr: israels totally going to retaliate
