Israel expended 1/2 to 1 billion dollars in missles yesterday

According to the Financial Times.

In the same report it is claimed that the US and Iran were in contact prior to the attack. In those discussions, the US urged restraint and the Iranians indicated that the response would be limited, and with three objectives. First. Little or no casualties. Two, intended for public consumption (propogands). Three, to demonstrate certain technological capabilities to Israel and the United States.

The US response was that if, in fact, the attack was of the nature described, that the US would do all it could to prevent a major Israeli response.

From the standpoint of the effectiveness of the raids, the Israelis are correct that 99% of the incoming were shot down, the vast majority of which were Drones, somè cruise missled, hezbula rockets and Yemini Drones.

There was damage to two Israeli Airbases within Israel. No loss of life. Some reports indicate that this damage appears to be the result of hypersonic ballistic missle warheads, a handful of which were launched. and for which Israel has no answer. This was intended to demonstrate that in the event of a real war, Israel would be vulnerable to ballistic missle attacks, as would the US fleet.

Israel will run out of missles well before Iran runs out of Drones and Hezbula runs out of $20,000 rockets, of which they have thousands. And according to J.D. Vance, US manufacturing is not capable of replacing diminished stocks, just like Ukraine.

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