[HIGHLIGHTS] What has this missile changed? The huge gap between Iranian armaments and Hamas rockets was revealed

The Iranian attack on the Saudi oil facilities included the most powerful missiles that Tehran has in its arsenal. The attack included a jet version of the weapons that Russia operates in Ukraine and missiles that were used in the attack on the Saudi oil facilities.

"This was the first time that precision Iranian missiles were used operationally against Israel," says Tal Inbar, an expert on the Iranian missile program. Israel began successfully intercepting launches towards it with the first successful operational launch of the Iron Dome in 2011 against rockets from Gaza, and since then the Rafael system has recorded thousands of successful interceptions. The Iranian attack in the early hours of last Sunday was on a scale that no country has faced to date, and with Iranian missiles, some of which were used Operationally for the first time. The Israeli defense establishment and the defense industries are now engaged in investigating the incident and drawing lessons from it. It was the largest ballistic and cruise missile attack ever recorded. It included rocket barrages launched by Hamas from Lebanon and intercepted by Iron Dome. Iran used three types of advanced missiles it had developed. The attack was the first activation of the new Iranian ballistic missile, Imad. Imad has a range of about 1,700 km, which allows launching to Israel from deep in Iran. Its warhead is orders of magnitude different from that of the cruise missiles and the heavy rockets that have been launched into Israel so far. We will now examine how despite the successful interceptions carried out by the Arrow missiles and a number of SM-3 missiles launched from American destroyers, a number of hits were still recorded in the south of the country. This is mainly another proof that it is difficult to achieve 100% success in interceptions, as is the case with the Iron Dome system, and that the IDF spokesman's initial announcement regarding 99% success was a little optimistic, says Yossi Ben-Ghiat, an analyst at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses in Tel Aviv, Israel's answer to the United States.