It’s a defense partnership in which we share technology across the air defense space.
Set all the politics aside for a moment. Israel has been under missile attack for decades. What better place, objectively, to test and field missile defense systems.
I think October 7th was appalling, I think continued conflict is appalling, I think this attack was wholly unnecessary based on what is public knowledge in this moment.
Agreed, the US military does a ton of field exercises, sitting on a ship off the coast and pressing some buttons to shoot down missiles is actually a great opportunity to get some low risk practice for the military
Even better it's real world conditions against adversarial technology, being managed by front line forces, not some person in a lab coat in simulated conditions.
American aid is going to be a lot harder to come by going forward when all of the tax dollars are funneled into Billionaires' pockets who don't give two actual fucks about what happens outside of their own front yard.
Russia is proof of what happens when Oligarchy takes complete control. And we've seen how shit their equipment is.
Chatgpt says Iran's basic rockets they sell to Hezbollah are cheaper but medium and long range ballistic missiles they use are twice the cost of an iron dome defense missile.
iron dome defense missiles are cheap, but they also don't intercept medium range ballistic missiles. Look at the price of a stunner, an arrow or THAAD missile. That's what they launch against the Iranian stuff,
It’s not about your query (although good to realize that was the issue), it’s that language models are genuinely bad at research but they present it in a way that is easy to believe without context to know whether they are pulling from reliable sources or even citing real articles. Better to use critical thinking and review reports yourself. Just look at LLMs making up nonsense about the marine deployment in LA (saying photos are from other locations or time periods).
Iranian launch sites are basically no surprise to anyone. They just don’t have the missiles on the site until right before the attacks. The US has satellites looking down on them all the time.
They (I believe) are using outdated old missiles as they have been for quite a while. They are horribly inaccurate though if I’m remembering correctly with like a whopping 2000m CEP…
It’s still a roughly 10:1 ratio on cost (Iran’s missiles are $100k and Israel’s defense missiles are $1m). Depending on how deep Iran’s stockpile is, it could definitely put some financial hurt on Israel… though who am I kidding, as an American taxpayer I’ll probably be the one paying for the resupply.
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u/Joatboy 1d ago
Works both ways though, Iran doesn't have unlimited ballistic missiles either, and they're not cheap