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  • Razia (She/Her)@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 days ago

    I imagine most people here know about this by now, but there is lots of evidence that the Patriot system’s interception rate, even with the most advanced PAC-3 interceptors (which are rapidly running out) against ballistic missiles is actually extremely low. Theodore Postol is an expert in this field and has been in key positions advising the US military in the past, and he has been giving a number of important interviews with evidence presented on this topic, I’ve picked out one that I’ve found to be a good summary of the overall case that he’s been making.

    So keep that in mind when the mainstream media keeps babbling on about supposed interceptions of missiles by all these collaborator regimes in the Persian Gulf and by Jordan and ‘Israel’. ‘Israel’s’ own air defence and ballistic missile defence systems draw heavily on US tech and existing systems’ engineering so much of this applies to their systems as well like the Arrow-3, as seen in previous rounds of the war.

    “MIT Professor and Pentagon advisor Ted Postol discusses the near-zero interception rate of the Patriot PAC-3.”