On Friday night, Iran unleashed a barrage of ballistic missiles upon Israel, with unconfirmed reports suggesting impacts within Tel Aviv, prompting a riposte from the IDF asserting the neutralization of the majority of projectiles, albeit with collateral damage to civilian infrastructure; concomitant to this assault, Tel Aviv's medical infrastructure has been mobilized to treat fifteen casualties, underscoring a palpable vulnerability in Israel's vaunted multi-tiered aerial defense architecture – a system previously adept at neutralizing inbound ordnance from disparate vectors since the conflict's inception on October 7, 2023 – further complicated by the US deployment of supplementary ground-based interceptor systems, notwithstanding Israel's demonstrable self-sufficiency in maintaining its airspace integrity over the preceding annum via its advanced, stratified defense network comprising the Arrow, David's Sling, and Iron Dome, and augmented by the nascent Iron Beam laser interception technology.