Middle East|HS found out how much Tuesday’s missile battle over Israel probably cost.
The summary is made by artificial intelligence and checked by a human.
An exceptionally expensive missile battle took place in the sky of Israel on Tuesday.
Iran attacked Israel with about 200 ballistic missiles, to which Israel responded.
The missile battle, which lasted only about 15 minutes, cost perhaps even more than a billion euros.
of Israel Last Tuesday, a historically expensive missile battle took place in the sky, in which Iran attacked and Israel defended.
It is possible that more than a billion euros worth of missiles and other weapons were used in the battle in fifteen minutes.
Iran attacked Israel with ballistic missiles on Tuesday evening. According to Iran, it launched a record number of about two hundred ballistic missiles in the attack.
The Israeli armed forces have said that about 180 missiles have reached Israel. Some of the Iranian missiles were destroyed by the anti-missile defense of the US warships and some must have been left along the way due to a technical fault.
Air raid sirens started playing in Israel on Tuesday at half past eight in the evening. Within fifteen minutes of the warning, the first missiles flew over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
The attack lasted a very short time. It was already over by eight o’clock. During this time, however, hundreds of different missiles were flying in the skies over Israel.
The remains of an Iranian ballistic missile that fell in the desert.
of Israel media according to a former economic advisor to the country’s armed forces Ram Aminach estimated after the attack that repelling Tuesday’s attack cost Israel a total of 4-5 billion shekels, or up to almost 1.2 billion euros.
Among other things, Aminach justifies his assessment by the fact that, according to his information, one missile of the Arrow system, designed to combat ballistic missiles, costs about 3.2 million euros, and the missile of the Daavidin linko system, which Finland also bought, costs about 900,000 euros.
According to Aminach, an attack costs Iran less than ten percent of what anti-missile defense costs Israel.
Aminach’s assessment can be compared to the attack in April, where Iran attacked Israel with about 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles and 120 ballistic missiles.
Countering that attack paid according to an Israeli think tank researcher’s estimate, 2.1 billion shekels, or about 500 million euros. The figure was based on an estimate in which Israel would have repelled half of Iran’s missiles and drones. It also included the cost of Israel having to keep a hundred warplanes in the air for six hours.
The plane of the Israeli Arrow system. The United States has contributed to its development.
To attack the price difference between the missiles used and the missiles intended to combat them is a well-known fact: missile defense costs clearly more than missile attack.
For example, in the United States, an anti-missile is about twice as expensive to build. However, the missiles used by the Iranians in their attacks are most likely significantly cheaper than the more technically advanced American missiles, so the real price difference between Israel and Iran is likely to be much larger.
Having been in public I estimate According to Based on this, Tuesday night’s attack cost Iran at least 180 million euros. However, Iran has several different and different levels of ballistic missiles, so this is only a rough estimate.
in Iran is estimated to be approximately 3,000 ballistic missiles in its warehouses. However, this often used estimate is from two years ago, so the number may already be higher. The Reuters news agency reported last summer that according to satellite images, Iran is expanding its ballistic missile manufacturing facilities.
United States supports Israel’s missile defense generously. The Jerusalem Post – magazine, for example, the United States has paid for the purchase of the missiles of the Arrow system, which is used to combat ballistic missiles.
The US has also supported Israel’s new laser-based anti-aircraft system Iron Beam development. It is said to be ready next year.
The advantage of the laser is that its use is so inexpensive compared to current systems that it would turn the cost of attack and defense with missiles on its head.
Iron Beam is intended to counter short-range rockets and artillery shells. The main weapon against them in Israel is the famous Iron Dome system, the unit price of the anti-missiles used is approx. 47,000 euros.
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