Hamas successfully breached Israel's missile defenses
During the current escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Tel Aviv's opponents have found a weak spot in Israel's missile defense system.
Military expert Anton Lavrov writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in Izvestia.
According to him, Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system is "now undergoing its most serious test in the last decade" as more Hamas rockets fell on cities near the Gaza Strip than in previous years.
“On the morning of Tuesday, May 11, in just 35 minutes, 81 rockets were fired at the cities of Ashkelon, Ashdod and Sderot from the Gaza Strip. Some of them broke through the protection of the Iron Dome missile defense batteries, which were operating at the limit of their capabilities, and fell in populated areas. During the day they announced 135 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip in just five minutes. Again, missile defense systems failed to completely stop such a massive attack. Immediately there were reports of two dead and more than 60 injured. Shells also fell on the territory of an oil storage facility between Ashkelon and Gaza, where one of the tanks caught fire,” the analyst reports.
He emphasizes that Hamas has taken into account the lessons of previous years: many rocket launchers are mounted secretly and controlled remotely, they are difficult to detect in advance, and even if defeated, this does not lead to casualties among Hamas. In addition, the technical characteristics of ammunition have also improved.
“Israel's adversaries have found a weak point in its missile defense system. They successfully broke through the Iron Dome's defenses by simply overloading it with a variety of low-cost targets. With all the advantages of the Israeli complex, like any air defense and missile defense system, its fire performance and stock of ammunition ready for immediate launch are limited.
But it will not be easy for Hamas to take advantage of this weakness. It has to make and secretly deliver its missiles to the Gaza Strip with great difficulty. If the conflict continues with the same or greater intensity, it is not known whose ammunition reserves will be depleted first - theirs or the Israeli missile defense system,” Lavrov sums up.
Let us recall that the conflict escalated after an attempt was made to evict Arabs from their homes in Jerusalem.
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