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And so it begins.
1 posted on 10/13/2024 11:32:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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The Defense Department is taking advantage of an opportunity for operational tests of THAAD.


2 posted on 10/13/2024 11:51:02 AM PDT by Thud
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This is really good news for Israel, even if it is a bit ominous.

Iron Dome is very effective for some missile threats but is not so great for serious ballistic missile threats.

THAADS is a much more capable system.


3 posted on 10/13/2024 11:53:26 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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Wonder how they will take this news in Dearbornistan?

Kamikazi Kamala snubs the Muslim vote? She's already in trouble with blacks and Hispanics. Are they doing this deliberately?

4 posted on 10/13/2024 12:14:15 PM PDT by ZOOKER
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The USA has a “memorandum of understanding” with Israel that commits $3.8 billion/year to Israel.

This is only what is disclosed publicly. No secret CIA support. No black budget stuff.

Over this past year, the USA has borrowed. $17.9 billion to give Israel.

Again, this is all that we know publicly.

We do not have endless money to give other nations and causes.

While they are an ally, we have clearly failed to provide for American citizens while richly funding a nation that is not a poor country.


5 posted on 10/13/2024 12:25:24 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ )
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As the First Lieutenant of my ship said, “This is great training, and the kids will love it’.


8 posted on 10/13/2024 12:33:40 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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“And so it begins.”

It’s already there. In March 2019, Bravo Battery, 2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment (B-2 THAAD), 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade was deployed at Nevatim Airbase during a joint US-Israeli drill, after which it was to be moved to an undisclosed location in the Negev desert in southern Israel. The X-Band radar system, which is part of the THAAD system, has been deployed at Nevatim since 2008. It has been developed along side the Aegis Ashore system that has a larger radar converage but is far more expensive.

Other countries like Taiwan, Omen and Japan have been trying to make a deal with the US and Saudi already has the system sold to them for $15M in 2017. Other locations that have already been upgraded are Turkey, Romania, and South Korea. For the US Hawaii, Guam, and Wake Island. On the west coast there are systems at Fort Greely, Alaska and Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.

This weapons system sounds new but it really isn’t. Lockheed Martin has been working on this since 1991 and are currently working on a system to counter hypersonic glide vehicles.

wy69


10 posted on 10/13/2024 12:50:38 PM PDT by whitney69
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