Posted on 04/14/2024 4:14:42 AM PDT by RandFan
More than 90% effective? So then, of the 300 drones and missiles launched yesterday, 30 got through.
Thank you President Reagan.
They lied and said “Star Wars” didn’t work. The concept always worked, and technologically, the system itself worked after about 1991.
https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts
QME has been a conceptual backbone of U.S. military aid to Israel for decades, and it was formally enshrined in U.S. law in 2008 [PDF]. It requires the U.S. government to maintain Israel’s ability “to defeat any credible conventional military threat from any individual state or possible coalition of states or from non-state actors, while sustaining minimal damage and casualties.” QME is based on NATO military planning vis-a-vis a potential conflict with the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries during the Cold War.
Under the 2008 law, the United States must ensure that any weapons it provides to other countries in the Middle East do not compromise Israel’s QME. In several cases, this has required the United States to provide Israel with offsetting weaponry as part of larger regional arms sales. QME has also ensured that Israel is the first in the region to receive access to the most sophisticated U.S. military weapons and platforms, such as the F-35 stealth fighter, of which Israel has fifty.
Link to PUBLIC LAW 110–429—OCT. 15, 2008 see *SECTION II* :
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-110publ429/pdf/PLAW-110publ429.pdf
Ah I see what you meant.
Exactly.
bttt
NBER.org
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