Drones with their capacities to glide are proving increasingly difficult for the Israel anti missile batteries to shoot down.
Netanyahu and Israel look set to suffer the same fate as Zelensky and the Ukraine who are relying on outdated, over expensive US air aircraft missiles and military equipment.
It is not clear if Israel lost F 35s or not in successful hypersonic missiles strikes on a desert airbase in the Negev.
From the BBC
Israel has an expensively assembled air defence system and the attack on the Binyamina base has raised fresh questions about its ability to stop relatively unsophisticated drones.
Iron Dome is the best known part of Israel’s air defence and is currently called into action dozens of times a day to intercept rockets that Hezbollah fires from south Lebanon.
And it generally works well. Here in northern Israel we often see white traces in the sky as several rockets are taken down at once.
The success of Iron Dome is due in part to the predictable flightpath of the more basic Hezbollah rockets.
Israeli radar systems analyse them as they launch and calculations are quickly made as to where they’re going to land.
If the rocket is heading towards a population centre an attempt will be made to shoot it down. Israel says it has a success rate of more than 90%.
Drones – with their unpredictable flight paths, and ability to hug the ground at low altitudes - are a different proposition.
"They are slower than missiles, they fly lower than rockets. They are very small," Sarit Zehani from the Alma Research Institute, which specialises in security on the northern border, tells me.
"And when these drones are launched with rockets that are completely different types and capabilities at the same time I can understand why eventually one got through."
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