Terrible news if true...
Text taken from the Telegram channel of ImpNavigator
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] As the American The Wall Street Journal writes with reference to American officials, it turns out, not one, as was previously known, but two American THAAD SAM batteries in Israel helped repel Iranian missile attacks. That is, the USA still transferred the second THAAD battery to Israel before the war.
There are only seven such batteries in the US. Moreover, during the 12 days of the war, these two American THAAD batteries alone spent more than 150 interceptor missiles in Israel. This is about a quarter of all missiles for THAAD purchased by the US Department of Defense for all time.
A large number of ship-based interceptor missiles from American destroyers were also used, not to mention the use of rockets of Israeli anti-aircraft missiles of the "Hets" (Arrow) family. What a density of anti-missile defenses there was, and despite this, some of the Iranian missiles still broke through to the targets until the very last moments of the war.
As it was said even during the war, Iran steadily penetrated the powerful consolidated air defense/anti-aircraft defense system of the USA and Israel, inflicting significant losses on Israel until the end of the war.
The key problem is that the USA and Israel underestimated Iran's missile capabilities and the stability of its internal structure, as a result of which it was not possible to achieve the collapse of Iran's military-political leadership, and it was not possible to neutralize Iran's strike capabilities.
Therefore, the war was hastily ended, as it would only get worse. The further along, the funnier the wartime jokes about the complete victory of Israel.