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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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Do you have any sources on the number of Iranian missile and drone launches per day?
It's mostly estimates from what countries that get hit report. There's a few different numbers floating around. I went with the most average of them (for missiles) : https://united24media.com/latest-news/irans-long-range-missiles-could-put-european-capitals-within-reach-experts-warns-16408
With drones it's a bit more difficult, as numbers range very wildly. I chose to believe Bahrain, that they got hit by 700 drones in 2 days and extrapolated 2000 per day everywhere from that. (Edit: Sorry, I extrapolated 2000 based on the ratio of missiles/drones used in Bahrain).
I haven't seen them saying any numbers in regards to the war in Ukraine that came even close to reality, so I wouldn't even consider them as a source when searching for info on anything else. At most consider any sources they themselves use.
I don't know how many missiles or drones Iran is using, and hadn't seen any numbers before yours, but I had the impression Iran wasn't using as much as that, while the intercptor expenditure by the empire might be (way) more than 2 per missile, in part because Iran might be piercing the AA defenses more efficiently hiting more with less. But since this was more like a feeling about the little I have seen I wanted some better evidence on what is actually going on.
That's understandable. Should have made it more clear I was just doing napkin math with best case scenario for West vs worst case scenario for Iran.
Wasnvt aware of united24. They were just giving a sum that looked average by other accounts.