Israel och USA attackerar Iran 2026-02-28

The report, which cites US officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, notes that the US deployed some 200 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, interceptors against Iranian missiles targeting Israel, representing roughly half of its total THAAD interceptors.

Additionally, it used more than 100 Standard Missile-3 and Standard Missile-6 interceptors, which are operated by the US Navy and were deployed aboard ships in the Mediterranean Sea during the war.

In contrast, Israel used fewer than 100 Arrow 3 missiles and around 90 David Sling interceptors, with many targeting attacks from the Houthis in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon rather than Iranian ballistic missiles, the latter more sophisticated and powerful.

While the Pentagon assessment highlights a heavy US footprint in high-altitude ballistic defense, Israel almost exclusively carried out the burden of the low-altitude war. Israel's Iron Dome maintained over a 90% success rate against thousands of Iranian drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles, according to data compiled by the Jewish Institute for National Security in America (JINSA).