New figures from The Economist: rate of Iranian missile launches continues to plummet

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Our results show that around halfway through the first week of the conflict the fighting entered a new phase. One change is that Iran’s counter-punches have become less effective: both fewer in number and reliant on drones, rather than missiles. Another is that America and Israel appear to be changing their focus from military targets to “civilian” buildings such as defence-industry facilities and the Iranian regime’s infrastructure of oppression—hence the strike in Javanrud.

Attacks on Gulf Arab states have almost all been intercepted and have fizzled out. Meanwhile, Iran keeps getting hit hard.

And then there are drones...In the first days of the conflict it launched roughly one for every missile. Now the ratio is ten to one.

Militarily, this is a complete route. It's insane to watch analysts say that the US and Israel are the ones who can't keep this up.

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