On Day 1, Iran launched 504 ballistic missiles at it's neighbors... by day 5, it was 29

[RoseTrellis]

21. Let's get real

No missile are launched thru the sand. That’s just impossible.
Don’t fall for the Iranian propaganda about tomahawks being wasted on inflatable decoys.
That might have worked to fool militaries in the early days of reconnaissance when overflights were infrequent, a tank/plane that just showed up one day could easily be identified as a valid target.
Those days are over. In today’s persistent surveillance, targets just don’t “appear”; the war planners/targeting cells can easily review previous footage to determine from where they came from and will easily reject those decoys. If you wanna do a deep dive, look up “gorgon stare” to get an idea of what’s possible. What you’ll,find is just the publicly availability capability, or doubt the system can do far more than that.
This target analysis is a core competency of the military that has existed for decades and is independent of who is in the White House.