• thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    I agree it maybe a little too good to be true, but this has been our contention for a long while now, that the interceptor missiles for blowing up missiles are far more expensive and difficult to produce than the missiles themselves. We’ve even seen this with Yemen, let alone Iran. Likewise, what would the “misdirection” on the IDF be? We’re seeing their interception rates decline. Iran shoots small waves of missiles and achieves lots of direct hits. What exactly is the point of telling Iran that they’re running out of interceptors? To bait them into shooting more missiles at Israel that are going to hit more targets?

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      If I’m using cheap missiles to run out your interceptor supply and I think you’re low, I might start using the expensive stuff as a knock out punch but then I waste the expensive stuff. Then the cooldown on my ult is going while you’re getting resupplied from the greater Satan

      Source: hallucinating like an LLM

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      what would the “misdirection” on the IDF be? To bait them into shooting more missiles at Israel that are going to hit more targets?

      Yes, except iran wouldn’t be hitting more targets since the idf would have more interceptors than they’d be letting the iranians believe.

      Though like you said iran has been able to make it past plenty of interceptors anyway

      • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        Yeah that’s what I mean, Iran surely has the ability to determine how many missiles are getting through. They can clearly see that many are. The only “feint” here is that Israel would have to be intentionally letting missiles through so that Iran makes a bigger launch and then they can intercept all of them which is uh confused.