- In March, a Patriot missile launch didn’t go as planned in Saudi Arabia while intercepting missiles fired by Houthi forces in Yemen.
- Author Jeffrey Lewis examined two missile attacks on Saudi Arabia and didn’t find any evidence that Saudi Arabia had intercepted missiles using Patriot missiles.
- That raises uncomfortable questions about the United States, which seems to have sold Saudi Arabia — and its own public — a lemon of a missile defense system.
On March 25, Houthi forces in Yemen fired seven missiles at Riyadh. Saudi Arabia confirmed the launches and asserted that it successfully intercepted all seven.
This wasn’t true. It’s not just that falling debris in Riyadh killed at least one person and sent two more to the hospital. There’s no evidence that Saudi Arabia intercepted any missiles at all. And that raises uncomfortable questions not just about the Saudis, but about the United States, which seems to have sold them — and its own public — a lemon of a missile defense system.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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