Another thought. This article smells like Debkaka to me, but still, I am aware that PAC-3 production has been in high gear, and I wonder if there's not a grain of truth to that end of the story....
...in that we're cranking out anti-missile batteries for the oil producers to mitigate Iran in the short term, or at least faster than they can develop an offensive capability, and that this is the strategy playing out right now.
PAC-3,