For years, Israel counted on one thing: that it would always have the smartest weapons in the region. That assumption is now dead.

How Iran’s ‘strategic patience’ switched to serious deterrence

Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israel were not conducted alone. Strategic partners Russia and China have Tehran’s back, and their role in West Asia’s conflict will only grow if the US doesn’t keep up…

Iran no longer lobs dumb rockets. It builds precision missiles guided by electro-optical seekers, inertial navigation systems, and terrain-matching algorithms.

These systems don’t rely on GPS. They don’t care if the U.S. or Israel tries to jam satellite links. Their guidance comes from inside the missile or from the terrain below.

Iran’s Fateh, Zolfaghar, and Kheibar lines now strike within meters of their target. Even mobile launchers can be pinpointed using EO sensors and BeiDou terminal correction.

BeiDou is China’s answer to GPS. It gives Iran global positioning accuracy without American satellites. Israel can’t intercept that data or shut it off.

Add to that: Russian battlefield data from Ukraine. Iran isn’t just building smarter weapons. It’s learning from live war—the kind Israel hasn’t fought since 2006.

The January 2020 strike on Al-Asad airbase was a warning shot. Iran hit U.S. targets with near-surgical accuracy. No GPS. No American retaliation.

Netanyahu keeps selling Iron Dome to the world. But Dome was built for rockets, not for swarms of kamikaze drones or cruise missiles with optical recognition.

David’s Sling and Arrow cost millions per launch. Iran’s Shahed drones cost tens of thousands. Tehran is winning the cost-per-kill war.

While Israeli defense firms sell upgrades, Iran is building doctrine. Dispersed launch units. Hardened silos. Redundant comms. Everything designed to survive first contact.

China provides optics. Russia provides tactics. Iran provides manufacturing. This isn’t Hezbollah with Katyushas. It’s a regional power with industrial-scale firepower.

Netanyahu still talks like it’s 2010. He warns of uranium enrichment while Iran prepares multi-vector saturation strikes Israel cannot absorb.

Postscript:

The age of Israeli military tech dominance is over. The warhead might say Iran, but the wiring is Chinese. The guidance is Russian-tested. And the target map is already programmed.

Vir: William Huo