With the Iran war in its second week, there has been a notable decline in the number of missiles being fired by Iranians. The immediate reaction to the strikes by the US and Israel on February 28, which resulted in the decapitation of the country's clerical and military leadership, was a barrage of drones and missiles. The fury seems to have been replaced by fewer but calculated strikes now. While the US and Israel are declaring that as their success, Iran insists that it is nothing but a change in its war strategy.
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The US and Israel are attributing this decline to their own strikes targeting Iranian missile launchers. They claim to have destroyed at least 75% of Tehran's launchers.
Iran, however, has rejected these claims. The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' (IRGC) Aerospace Force, Brigadier General Seyyed Majid Mousavi, announced that there had been a shift in strategy that would see the IRGC shifting to using missiles with heavier explosive payloads.
In the immediate days after the initial US and Israeli strikes which Iran responded with a wave of missile
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