How can the Israel military, which has suffered heavy losses from hundreds of ballistic missiles and has not yet refuted the rumor that "20 F-35I fighters were blown up," swallow this bad breath. The Israeli army's counterattack on Iran itself is already on the way, and now the only thing that may affect the final decision of the Israel military is the attitude of the United States government. Judging from the news in the past two days, the United States does not want the Israel military to attack Iran's oil facilities to avoid causing price turmoil in the international oil market; It also does not support the Israel military's attack on Iran's nuclear facilities to avoid an escalation of the war.
On October 7, United States media revealed the Israel military's two-step retaliatory plan. The New York Times reported that Israel's initial retaliatory strike in response to Iran's massive ballistic missile attack last week was expected to potentially target military bases and locations linked to Iran's intelligence and leadership. If Iran decides to respond to Israel's "initial strike," Israel will likely respond to strikes against Iran's nuclear program. It is clear that the Israel military wants to save face with an attack (which Iran has no resistance or retaliation for).
It means that the two sides have leveled off back and forth. However, the Iran military does not buy it and wants to raise confrontational deterrence to the level of decisive battle. The Tasnim news agency reported that a source in the Iran military revealed that Iran had prepared at least 10 options in advance to respond to any action by Israel. Iran's response will not always equate to Israel's actions, but could be harsher and targeted at different targets, which would increase the effectiveness of the response, the person said. At the same time, due to the small size of the Israel country, less infrastructure and more sensitive, Iran retaliation could lead to unprecedented problems.
On the same day, Iran officials also released a video of the missile operation and launch in the underground tunnel of the "True Promise 2" operation. This is undoubtedly a blunt warning to Israel that the Iran army still has a large number of ballistic missiles in its hands. If last week's attack on the Israel mainland and the scale of ballistic missile use are followed, then the Iran missile forces have struck the Israel mainland more than 10 times, and at least more than 1,000 anti-jamming ballistic missiles have been prepared. Israel's air defense forces, on the other hand, are facing the dilemma of running out of anti-aircraft interceptor missiles. Even the US military in the Middle East is not sure to intercept all Iran missiles.
At present, the air defense forces of the United States Navy in the Middle East are at an all-time low and cannot participate in the interception of a saturation attack of large-scale ballistic missiles, especially hypersonic missiles, against the adverse background of lack of warning time. And the 32 craters on the ground of the Nevatim airfield in the Negev desert in Israel prove that Israel's existing air defense systems are ineffective against hypersonic missiles.