88 primitive missiles with poor accuracy----they were able to threaten only
area targets like cities--they were a weapon of terror----no surprise Saddam --knowing poor accuracy of his missiles and inability to destroy high value targets --instead preferred to attack Tel Aviv and Riyadh
88 primitive missiles.....Iran is estimated to have more than 2000 ballistic missiles with pinpoint accuracy.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-attack-ballistic-missiles
This is Pentagon estimate---in reality Iran might have even more missiles.
The key word here is "
pinpoint accuracy"---meaning, unlike Saddam,
Iran can target even your house and a room where you are sitting from 500-1000 km away
First, Iran has ballistic missiles that can hit moving targets like ships
Read about Bundeswehr's reaserch of Iranian Khalije fars anti-ship ballistic missile
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/effectiveness-of-khalije-fars-anti-ship-ballistic-missile.644456/
Second, if you can destroy stationary targets like aircraft shelters, fuel depots, power plants, desalination plants, oil refineris, command centers---(something Saddam with his primitive Scuds was incapable of doing)----you can win the war
This is true for Saddam's Scuds with their 1km CEP--you have to launch 20 missiles with 1km CEP and hope that at least one of them will hit something
In Iran's case---of 10 missiles fired at Ain-Al Assad---9 missiles hit their targets with 5m accuracy
Such an accuracy is a game changer.
Please, don't show your ignorance.---Ain Al Assad was a demonstration of precision....next time---fuel depots, runways, and expensive aircrafts themselves will be targeted and destroyed.
Patriot?
This is an article by Jeffrey Lewis----I'm sure that due to your ignorance you don't know who is Jeffrey Lewis---probably another "TV expert" who is less reliable than you "analysis"
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/28/patriot-missiles-are-made-in-america-and-fail-everywhere/
Patriots can't even shoot down primitive Yemeni Scuds.
This is Saudi Patriot--destroying Saudi cities instead of enemy target LOL.
So instead of "making your own analysis" you better listen to what specialists like Uzi Rubin or Jeffrey Lewis say....
You call radar guided Silkworm anti-ship missile a "cruise missile" that can be used against US---they can be used only against ships and due to their primitive radars---their radars were easily jammed and fooled by chaff and decoys.
If you want to see a real cruise missile----this is it
And if you want to see it's performance----learn about attacks against Abqaiq and Khurais oil facilities in Saudi Arabia---Patriot AD didn't helped the Saudis
First, Iran took a lesson from US wars in Iraq and prepared itself. Iran knows that it will have to deal with a country with superior firepower.
Second, instead of posting ignorant nonsense--- you better study 2006 war in Lebanon and answer a question:
How come that despite full control of the skies and vastly superior firepower, Israeli air force FAILED to destroy Hezbollah's Command and Control/military infrastructure/---FAILED to stop rocket launches from tiny territory of Lebanon even despite full control of the skies? FAILED to defeat Hezbollah.
Hezbollah Rockets were falling on Israel up until the end of 2006 war even despite Hezbollah was on the "receiving end of thousands of precision-guided munitions each day"
And Yemen also has its own ballistic missile: Burkan-1 and Burkan-2
Do you realy believe that third world countries like Yemen and Iraq of 1991 can make its own missiles?
They just take a Scud they bought from abroad--add some light modifications and use them as low accuracy weapons of terror against cities.
LOL. You have no idea of what are you talking about.
Making a 50m CEP missile is of enormous technological challenge....The best and brightest minds of USSR and USA were breaking their heads in trying to solve the problem of low accuracy of ballistic missiles.
It was only after satellite navigation and new generation of complex gyroscopes----- high level of precision of ballistic missiles was achieved in first world countries.
Even Iranian missiles from 2010 had a CEP of 500m and only recently Iran managed to achieve 5m accuracy.
Saddam with his third world technological and industrial base in no way could have achieved a 50m accuracy in 1990s.