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Hah, I remember being shown a, well, propaganda TV event for schoolchildren, where cute kids would lisp questions like, "what if we run out of Patriot missiles,

Hah, I remember being shown a, well, propaganda TV event for schoolchildren, where cute kids would lisp questions like, "what if we run out of Patriot missiles, but Saddam still has his SCUDs?" and the hosts would assure that we had tons of them left.

baybal2 5y ago
UAE has recently shot at least $150M of interceptors in a single night. THAAD, and PAC III. Raytheon people are all over the place there, to the point I bumped into them on every drone industry event I been (3 in total)
- pjc50 5y ago
  This does raise the question of attrition - if the missiles are much cheaper than the interceptors, it becomes an effective attack even if none of the missiles hits a target.
  - codechad 5y ago