Mastodawn

“The #Khorramshahr #missile, #Iran’s most advanced ballistic missile, is believed to be capable of carrying a cluster #warhead dispersing up to 80 submunitions.

Since that post, it has come to loom large in Israeli threat assessments, a persistent concern for a country equipped with a multi-layered missile defence system that is widely regarded as the world’s most sophisticated.”

“Since the start of the war, Iran’s cluster munitions – which disperse dozens of bomblets mid-air – have tested Israel’s #HighlyAdvanced, multi-tier #MissileDefence network, including Iron Dome, which is designed to counter threats across ranges, altitudes and speeds, exposing gaps that interception alone has struggled to close.”

#Conflict <https://theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/23/iran-cluster-bombs-bypassing-israel-air-defences>

Breaching the Iron Dome: the Iranian cluster bombs bypassing Israeli air defences

Gleaming trails of bomblets in night sky have become familiar to Israelis as Tehran exploits apparent vulnerability

The Guardian

Urban Wronski Writes Mar 11

The First Casualty

They told you Iran's missiles were being swatted from the sky. They told you the Iron Dome was holding, the Patriot batteries were working, US and Israeli air power was surgical and winning. They told you this on the ABC. They told you this on Sky. They were telling you nonsense. MIT Professor Ted Postol — the man who proved the Patriot missile failed in the Gulf War while presidents were claiming a 97 percent success rate — has now established that current intercept rates against Iranian missiles run at a few percent at most. The systems are depleting. The decoys are multiplying. The official story is, in his own carefully chosen word, a fraud. The first casualty of war is truth. But the deeper insight, the one Phillip Knightley identified fifty years ago, is that the lies are not random. They serve purposes. And right now, they are serving purposes that Australians have every right to examine.

https://urbanwronski.com/2026/03/11/the-first-casualty-2/

Worlddefensereport Feb 21

U.S. Deploys Largest Middle East Military Build-Up Since 2003 Amid Rising Iran Tensions

https://defensemirror.com/news/41150/U_S__Deploys_Largest_Middle_East_Military_Build_Up_Since_2003_Amid_Rising_Iran_Tensions

#USMilitary #MiddleEast #IranTensions #DonaldTrump #MilitaryDeployment #F16 #F22 #F35 #USSNavy #CarrierStrikeGroup #AWACS #TomahawkMissiles #StraitOfHormuz #NuclearProgramme #MissileDefence

FreddyB Aviation Photography Nov 12

People apparently freaked out over a towed radar. Like it has been there for almost 20 years Love the panic without the research. Here is my shots of the Sea-Based X-band radar (SBX-1) from November 2008 using my CoolPix 7900 #MissileDefence #radar #hawaii

https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/strange-dome-vessel-floating-hawaii-21169092.php