Huh? It sounds as if Israel is choosing to retire its Patriots because it finds them inadequate.
How do you twist this into "Zeepers" wanting to leave Israel defenseless? "Zeepers" had nothing to do with Israel's decision.
“Huh? It sounds as if Israel is choosing to retire its Patriots because it finds them inadequate.”
If I recall the version Israel had exploded in the vicinity of the target creating a debris cone that was supposed to destroy the missile. But the scuds were breaking up and the debris cone was focused in on the larger target, a fuel tank. The warhead was still on trajectory and hit anyway. This problem was addressed in later versions.
Ignore him: he’s just frothing incoherently again. Apparently, the FSB pays him by the word.
It sounds as if Israel is choosing to retire its Patriots because it finds them inadequate.
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They are very old Patriots designed to intercept SCUDS and planes - Iron Dome, David’s Sling etc are far better.
“Huh? It sounds as if Israel is choosing to retire its Patriots because it finds them inadequate.”
Inadequate when they’re facing a HUGE COUNTRY with all kinds of weapons, including fighter planes, which the Patriots are designed to take out.
Zeepers may HATE Israel, but even Zeepers have to admit that they are VERY SMART, and because of that there is NO WAY they’d give up a well-developed weapons system for a ‘promise’ of something years out in the future.
They’re not that dumb, but they are that DESPERATE, given how badly the Zeepers need their Patriots in Ukraine to drive this war beyond the November elections.
Concurring bump...the US interceptors had just a 25% success rate against Iranian missiles, while the Israeli interceptors scored 90%.