Missile strikes on Israel nuclear facilities
The latest strikes by Iran on Israel have highlighted the extent of military problems for Israel and the United States. Reports by international warfare experts confirm that up to now, Iran has relied on less advanced missile types to deplete Israel’s ballistic missile interceptor arsenal, but the ability of hypersonic glide vehicles to bypass them entirely has posed an entirely different kind of threat. Vice President of the leading Israeli missile defence system developer Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, Yuval Baseski, highlighted that this had forced the firm and the Israel Defence Forces to develop an entirely new approach to missile defence. “Hypersonic missiles open a new era in air defence,” he stated, observing: “Every air defence system today is based on flying faster than the target. But this principle does not apply to hypersonic missiles. To intercept an object moving at Mach 10, one would need a defence moving at Mach 30, which is impossible ...