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Sure but it is still filled with nato personnel. It has never been out of realm of expectation that Iran would attack the bases. Adequate protection would have make sense!
Obviously it is useless. However: ”Patriot has been given the function of the U.S. Army's anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, which is now Patriot's primary mission. “
Primary! The prices on each missile is 2million USD. A POP! And you think they would admit that it again failed to intercept. Now they can’t even blame useless saudi operators.
if they could then they would. Iran has just recently been mass producing state of the art AD. In a couple of years it will be packed with Iranian ad. Anything else is stupid.
great piece!
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...-missile-strikes-on-al-assad-air-base-in-iraq
The U.S. government has also now confirmed that it did not shoot down any incoming missiles. It did not, at least at the time of the strikes, have any ballistic missile defenses in place in Iraq ostensibly because its forces were postured to fight ISIS, which does not have these weapons. This, however, seems curious given numerous reports in the past six monthsor so about intelligence indicating that Iran or its regional proxies might be moving missiles into position to attack U.S. interests in the Middle East or those its allies and partners.
Regardless, it is worth remembering that, even if Patriots or some other ballistic missile defense system, had been in place at the time, it is very unlikely that they would have been able to successfully intercept all of the incoming Iranian weapons.