[Zhang Fei]

[Only a clueless civilian would make such ludicrous an argument. The people deployed to such areas are trained combat troops. The risks of deployment to danger zones is what they signed up for, are trained for, and fully understand the risks of.

Not a one of them would agree to expose such advanced and classified technology to protect them.]

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They were deployed to protect military installations during Desert Storm. The point here isn’t just to protect the troops - it’s to test the systems under real life conditions. It doesn’t get more real life than enemy missiles salvoed at unpredictable intervals.

[ocrp1982]

That happens almost weekly in Israel. Those systems are under joint development with the USA and Israel.

[BeauBo]

“They were deployed to protect military installations during Desert Storm.”

In Desert Storm, there was a very credible threat of widespread use of chemical WMDs by Saddam.