Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday that he told a group of Israeli pilots and air crews that the world will see the Israeli military’s “might” once it launches an attack on Iran.
“In my conversation with them I emphasized – after we attack Iran, everyone will understand your might, the process of preparation and training – any enemy that tries to harm the state of Israel will pay a heavy price,” Gallant wrote on X.
He said in the post that Israel was fighting a war on “seven fronts,” referring to Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.
In a video of Gallant addressing the airmen, he said, “After we attack in Iran, they will understand in Israel and elsewhere what your preparations have included.”
Gallant’s comments come amid anticipation of an Israeli attack on Iran in response to the October 1 Iranian missile barrage that was fired at Israel, which was retaliation for a series of Israeli escalations.
The US has vowed to defend Israel from any Iranian response to the coming Israeli attack and deployed a THAAD missile defense system to Israeli territory for that purpose. The THAAD system was deployed with about 100 troops, who could become potential targets of Iranian missiles.
It shows the total destructive arrogance.
Really starting to sound like an Israeli nuclear attack on some level.
Remember: Israel has threatened and in some cases discussed preparing a nuclear strike on one or two other occasions during previous conflicts. And that was when they had less support from the US than they do now.
THAAD + 100 troops thoroughly trained and experienced with using it = THAAD as a military system. The soup question is how many inbound bogeys can be fired on before running out of intercept missiles, because I'm pretty sure that will be Iran's primary question, too. Same question for our carrier groups and Aegis destroyers in the Med, by proxy.
Nukes, though?
The Israelis are stark raving mad.
Ya know ED,
They are errant children, who have lost their way…
Lost their way to becoming stark raving mad.
Still giving them the benefit of the doubt?
Was a discussion over at MoA. One of the posters estimated the number of THAAD and other AD missiles that might be ready to use. He also estimated the number of Iranian missiles (not drones) which had the range to hit Israel as around 800, which is close to the 500-750 I've previously estimated from older public data. His conclusion: Israel will run out of missiles and X number of ballistic missiles will get through.
Whether that will be enough to do enough damage to Israel's military and civilian infrastructure is the question. I think Hezbollah may need to fully participate to achieve that, since Hezbollah's missiles are much closer and numerous than Iran's.
Iran's "hypersonic" missiles in particular are very recently introduced, so unless they've done a massive amount of industrial work, they can't have produced very many of them over the last two-three years. Drones are easily produced, ballistic missiles are much harder, cost more and take longer to produce. Production rates are usually in single or double digits – not hundreds – per year. Some of Iran's older missiles have been around for two decades, but most of them are shorter range, intended for US facilities in the region.
The THAAD system has 48 abms –So given the typical strategy of firing two abs at every incoming missile that protects you against 24 missiles/drones…. With decoys that means it will be on empty in about 5 minutes.
Israel cannot do anything effective unless they’re interested in self destruction…!
Israel's true "might" is shown how it can easily force the USA to do anything with their stranglehold on US govt., In 1973 they had to let the USA know that they had actually readied their nuclear arsenal to force Nixon to come to their aid–with Biden administration they get blind fealty all upfront.
The US has vowed to defend Israel from any Iranian response to the coming Israeli attack
And that is the only reason that little fucking turd said what he said.
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Exactly. Fingers crossed there'll come a day soon when these arrogant pricks will make their threats and turn around and there will be no one there to back them.
Yes, please sir, let’s see your might.
Some words of wisdom for Mr. Gallant….
“This is your rifle, this your gun… This is for fighting and this is for fun!”
Put that in your pipe and smoke it with a nice fine hash….