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    20 hours ago

    🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 Iranian missiles are penetrating Israeli defenses, raising doubts about interceptor effectiveness, The Washington Post reports.

    Officials say fears that Iran is stockpiling missiles to overwhelm air defenses helped drive the conflict, and recent strikes have exposed vulnerabilities in Israel.

    Hits on Arad and Dimona have fueled concerns Israel may be running low on interceptors and could be forced to ration them, prioritizing key sites like Dimona’s nuclear facility.

    Israel’s layered air defense, including Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow, is considered among the most advanced, but costs are high. Arrow interceptors run about $3 million each, David’s Sling about $700,000, Iron Dome $50,000 to $70,000, and THAAD around $15 million.

    According to U.S. officials, the Pentagon spent roughly $5.6 billion on munitions in the first two days of strikes on Iran

    https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/179277

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      14 hours ago

      So they are saving interceptors, that have proven mostly ineffective against most of Irans older missiles, for key locations, which Ira will now be using their newer missile on. lol

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      Officials say fears that Iran is stockpiling missiles to overwhelm air defenses helped drive the conflict

      “I was afraid that the wasps might sting me so I threw pebbles at their hive until they swarmed me.”

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        It truly is such an absurd way to expedite the collapse of the American empire. What good is the capitalist grift if, in the end, the petrodollar ceases to exist? Capitalists really get seized by the throat by the parasitic system itself and have no choice but to fulfill its unquenchable desire.