(Western Journal)—Israel’s war with Iran in June revealed just how thinly stretched the United States’ missile defense systems are globally.
America currently has seven Terminal High Altitude Area Defense systems — known as THAAD — and two of those were reportedly in Israel during 12 days of fighting with Iran, according to the Wall Street Journal.
In the fighting, over 150 interceptor missiles were used to shoot down Iranian missiles, which is almost one-fourth of the total the U.S. has ever purchased.
Despite this effort at countering Iran being supported by Israel’s own defense systems, the Wall Street Journal noted an “alarming” gap as Iranian missiles got through, even with shipborne U.S. defense systems being used as well.
At one point, considerations were made to divert interceptors purchased by the Saudis to help in defense.
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