American missile defense failed to stop a Yemeni Scud headed for Riyadh airport last month: the Soviet-made rocket missed, but not before beating all five US-supplied Patriot missiles the Saudis fired against it. This is 25 years after the US was caught lying about the effectiveness of Patriots (against Scuds) during the Gulf War.
25 years after the Gulf War fiasco, US Patriot systems still can not take down Soviet missiles from the 1960s
You know the story. Last month Yemen’s Houthis fired a modified Soviet-era Scud missile against Riyadh airport which was intercepted mid-air by US-made Patriot missiles Saudi military fired against it.
Trump bragged that “Our system knocked the missile out of the air. That’s how good we are. Nobody makes what we make, and now we’re selling it all over the world.” While the Saudis used the missile launch — fired in retaliation for their countless massacres of civilians from the air — to escalate their blockade of Yemen, which had already brought a cholera epidemic and malnutrition to that country, to a fully-fledged starvation blockade.
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