Iran responded on Friday, June 13 to the Israeli strikes on Friday, June 13 to dismantle Tehran’s military capabilities, attracting dozens of missiles against Israel, thus testing the air defense capabilities of the Hebrew State. If Israel is proud to have established an iron dome, which is supposed to protect it from this type of attack, Iranian attacks have affected the Israeli soil, since important damage has been recorded in the vicinity of Tel Aviv.
In fact, this Saturday, Iran shot new missiles against Israel, where emergency services informed three dead and dozens of injured. The majority were intercepted by the Israeli army, but some managed to reach the Hebrew State.
“What Israeli staff feared, what is happening is that Iran uses extremely powerful long -term missiles that saturate the protection system,” explains in our Set Olivier Ravanello, international political consultant for BFMTV.
“Some can be intercepted, but the amount sent is such that the missiles end up falling,” he said.
If Iran has achieved its objectives in part, it is because its army has very powerful weapons: ballistic missiles. “It is extremely difficult to intercept,” said General Patrick Dugartre, former leader of the Patrol of France, in BFMTV.
“Either intercepts it when it goes, or the arrival, but the problem is that it occurs at 5,000 km/h, it is not a drone that reaches 150 km/h. (…) Sometimes there are several heads that can come out,” he explains that a machine of this type “takes only 5 to 10 minutes to arrive from Iran” until Israel, while 1,700 are separated.
A sophisticated air defense system
The Iron Dome is one of the Israeli defense systems in the Hebrew state. Its development began after Iraqi attacks carried out with SCUD missiles during the Gulf War in 1991, recalls the Reuters agency. Established with the support of the United States, it was operational in 2011.
This sophisticated mechanism is capable of detecting shots that threaten Israeli soil and can only be deployed in case a projectile towards an agglomeration, a civil residential building or a sensitive military structure.
Despite these capacities, the Israeli defense system is not completely impervious. The Hebrew state also plans to improve it again, adding laser technology responsible for intercepting air attacks.
A system with several layers
According to Yehoshua Kalishy, a researcher at the National Security Study Institute of Tel Aviv, in Reuters, the Israeli Air Defense System has gradually perfected until it becomes a several level system.
The external layers, called Arrow-2 and Arrow-3, are responsible for intercepting the ballistic missiles, either destroying them when hitting them in the air. They have been significantly used to intercept the missiles sent by Yemen hutis.
An intermediate layer, called David’s Fronde, can intercept short -range missiles, from 100 to 200 km, such as those of Hezbollah in Lebanon, airplanes, drones and cruise missiles, according to the researcher.
Finally, the last level of protection is the best known, the nickname of the iron dome. It has been built to destroy small inappropriate objectives, such as low technology rockets and short -range drones. Specifically, each unit is towed by a truck and missile pull, whose trajectory is guided by a radar, to exploit the projectiles in full flight. According to Israel, it is supposed to have a 90%success rate, says Associated Press.
Support for foreign powers
According to Associated Press’s agency, American land defense systems also help intercept Iranian missiles sent to the region.
Last October, Washington said he had sent an advanced antimile system to Israel, called Thaad, to help him protect, remembers Reuters, against short and medium -sized ballistic missiles. Other countries have also participated in helping Israel, as they have already done in previous attacks, according to CNN.
Emmanuel Macron also said on Friday that France would participate “in protection and defense operations” in Israel in case of “reprisals” Iranian, if he is “in a situation of doing so”, before Tehran sends drones to the Hebrew state.
In April 2024, in previous Iranian shots, 300 projectiles were launched towards Israel. The “99%” of them had been intercepted by Israel’s air defense systems, then assured the Hebrew state army.
Source: BFM TV
