BREAKING: US forces intercept ‘surprise’ Iranian missile attack

Apparently the Iran’s munitions are not depleted. The question is where are they and how many.

If it was a surprise it means usa was not ready. Spin the facts all you want but anyone with half a brain who knows war tactics know your lieing.

I thought all thier military weapons was taken out.

“We can’t intercept anymore”
“We intercepted all missiles”

I wonder which side is truly bluffing its stockpile. We’ll know soon enough

​ @javajeff3772 RE: “US forces will have a new list of targets”

The United States and Israel have reportedly already struck more than 20,000 targets in Iran. The problem is not identifying additional targets; it is that Iran is structurally difficult to disable through conventional airstrikes.

1. Iran’s energy infrastructure is highly dispersed. No single power plant supplies even 5% of the national electricity grid, so destroying a few major facilities would not cripple the entire system.

2. Its water infrastructure is also decentralized. Unlike Israel and several Gulf states, Iran obtains less than 5% of its water from desalination. There is no small number of coastal desalination plants whose destruction would shut down the country’s water supply.

3. Its mobile military infrastructure is extremely difficult to target. Drones can be launched from small, towable platforms that are inexpensive, highly portable, easy to manufacture, and simple to camouflage.

4. Its fixed military infrastructure is heavily hardened. Many missile and drone facilities are reportedly buried beneath massive granite mountains and designed to survive even nuclear-scale blast effects—similar in concept to the hardened U.S. command complex inside Cheyenne Mountain. My assumption is that Western intelligence knows the locations of only a fraction of these sites.

5. Some underground missile systems are rail-based. Launchers can move continuously between firing positions, making fixed-target planning far less effective. After launch, some positions can reportedly be concealed again beneath layers of earth.

6. Iran can manufacture drones and missiles far faster and more cheaply than the United States can produce many of the weapons used to destroy or intercept them. Iranian systems often cost only a minute fraction of the price of U.S. offensive missiles and air-defense interceptors. That creates an unfavorable long-term cost-exchange ratio.

7. Iran’s civilian infrastructure and technical workforce are also resilient. Its infrastructure is geographically dispersed, and the country has a highly literate population with a substantial supply of engineers and technicians capable of repairing and maintaining damaged systems.

The central issue is therefore not whether the U.S. can generate another target list. It can. The issue is whether striking additional targets can produce decisive strategic effects faster than Iran can disperse, repair, replace, conceal, and regenerate what is destroyed.