The U.S. army unloads a THAAD missile defense system in Israel, March 2019. (U.S. Army Europe)
Israel asked the United States to deploy a second Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system to protect the country in case of an Iranian reaction to an expected Israeli reprisal attack, Hebrew media reported on October 18.
The THAAD was designed to shoot down short, medium, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase by intercepting with a hit-to-kill approach.
The system can engage missiles at ranges of 150-200 kilometers Typically, each system consists of six truck-mounted launchers, 48 interceptors, radio and radar equipment, and requires 95 soldiers to operate. The U.S. military reportedly has seven systems in service.
Iran has been bracing for an Israeli retaliation after its October 1 large-scale missile attack, which it said came in response the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Hamas Movement, in Tehran in July, and the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian General Abbas Nilforoushan in Beirut in September.
Earlier this week, the U.S. confirmed the deployment of one of its THAAD systems along with some 100 troops to operate it in Israel.
The system was deployed to “help bolster Israel’s air defenses,” Pentagon Press Secretary Major General Pat Ryder said in a statement on October 13.
This was not the first time the U.S. has deployed a THAAD system to the Middle East. The U.S. previously deployed system to Israel in 2019 for training and an integrated air defense exercise. Last year, a system was also deployed to the region following the October 7 Hamas-led surprise attack on Israel.
The U.S. is unlikely to reject the Israeli request for a second THAAD system. Washington has shown nothing but unwavering support for the country since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip which later spread into Lebanon. This stance is slowly pushing the region into an all-out war.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence
NOW hosted at southfront.press
Previously, SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence was at southfront.org.
The .org domain name had been blocked by the US (NATO) (https://southfront.press/southfront-org-blocked-by-u-s-controlled-global-internet-supervisor/) globally, outlawed and without any explanation
Back before that, from 2013 to 2015, SouthFront: Analysis and Intelligence was at southfront.com
iran meanwhile dutifully follows the west’s colonial playbook and waits, and waits, and waits… until the zios can be bothered to hit back (in between isr wiping out the plstns and eating into leb and syr).
the idiotic tit-for-tat of the ‘ir-v-is’ occasional wet fish slapping competition thus continues in parallel to daily zio-slaughter and the arrival of us weaponry.
pezeshkian should maybe grab a flight over to the uk for a conker contest, to gain more insight.
i don’t know why iran, russia, venezuela and north korea don’t follow imperial japan’s example and take on the americans head-on. much better to provide an opportunity for the americans to bring to bear their advantage in high-tech conventional warfare than to keep them spinning in lower-intensity conflicts. thanks for derping.
the us government may have nothing left to kill protesting americans with. the us military has recently been authorized to use deadly force against americans in anticipation of the next election.
about time the civil war to end all zionazi war$ got reloaded. go for it, hell yeah! the rest of the planet’s got the popcorn and the munchies.
because they never did before?
yes, another thaad will save israel. not. this is just more feel good for stupid squatters. and it still wouldn’t be able to hit hypersonics. when has this system ever taken out anything other than in demos? israel just wants more americans on their soil as a trip wire. blinkin is only too happy to provide this. when it comes to assassinations, he should be at the top of the list.
blanken will be out of work soon and he will have himself to blame. i can’t wait. trump.vance in 2024. make america first again. zelenskyy is a loser. they will not replace us. russia is our friend
trumpo is the world’s number one shabbos goy whore, bought with $100 million of adelson money. he has been cheerleading the zio genocide for months, calling on his buddy nutteryahoo to kill even more gaza kiddies. he is utter filth, a disgusting piece of vermin. though he isn’t much different from most us whore politicians.
poor “mick” will never figure it. leave him to his reds and blues rah rah ranting.
tony blinken is the hoochie coochie man!
he’s one of fourteen “duel loyalty” americans in pedo joe’s cabinet
the us zog politburo is 100% kosher. not much d-i-v-e-r-s-i-t-y there.
according to their general all the us goy soldiers are “happy” to die for israel.
i guess we can conclude that the jews do not really have any plan. just emotion based, knee jerk responses. their overarching aim is retaliation. judaism is an extreme form of vindictiveness. they do not have the honesty to look within themselves and admit their errors. that is why jews do not build civilizations. they destroy them
bunch of cowards. requesting additional missile defence before attacking iran.shows they are worried. then talk big when they kill some fighters with us support. chickens have more balls than israel.
they will never attack iran in any real sense. if not palestine would cease to exist and the zionazi knows this all too well. god made iran great and palestine small for a reason. nothing the thieving jooz in palestine can now do will save their miserable a$$.
the jewnited snakes is the leading state sponsor of the zionist genocide, with its uk poodle closely behind. it is ruled over by zog and the bought and blackmailed whores in congress. it is just another zog occupied territory.
israel doesn’t appear to have much faith into its own, constantly hyped air-defense systems.
nor in its own press releases according to which they routinely intercept practically all missiles and drones fired at israel ….
now.. now… now…. iron doooom makes the desert boooooom and davy’s g string makes the tick tock trannies jive.
le cumpără europenii sistemele. niste putori
the idiot golem can send all the pentacon garbage that still looks operational. however, it can no more save the filth in occupied palestine than their zionazi regime clown cousins in the rump ukrapper duumpster. karma is coming for the chosenite demons and they will pay for the blood of innocents and almost a century of carnage in occupied palestine. nut’nyahoo, the floundering demon will die in flames and burn like his fellow zionazi zelensky. karma time!
patriot, useless. rusty sieve, useles. thaad,? probably another useless wonderwuffen
the jews are desperate and know that clever iran has the means to penetrate the iron doom and hezbollah attacking the civilian society of the jews with heavily loaded drones under the radar and the iraqi resistence and houthis. what’s not to like! so another thaad systems won’t stop the iranians and those guys from eliminating the jews in palestine. please note that it’s the jews that has made iran the enemy and not the other way round.
i discovered a fatwa from mr.khamenei prohibiting the production of nuclear weapons, dated from 2005. iran couldn´t be serious! i think the “axis of resistance” should decide, either go full war mode or capitulate! fake support to palestinians and lebanese don´t help… the world lacks men like khomeini… khamenei is weak!
khomeini was literally installed by the us to head off secular nationalists who might have been too friendly with the soviets. the world is full of such scum-bags.
no one of you two (clyde and sruss) has understandings neither of history nor of stategie.
the leader then had layed the foundation stone for todays iran. he was the soul of todays iran. he fought iran out of the claws of the zionists.
the today leader will shurley not speak out his tactics. but you can see how desperate usrael is. if that don’t explain all… it takes it’s time.
iran should be held accountable, alongside with all the sunni dictatorships. while people on palestine, lebanon and yemen are suffering, they are faring very well… faking a “confrontation” with israel… if so called “islamic republic” are affraid give your weapons to ansar allah…they will fulfill their duty!
gurble-guk?
please go inform yourself. you have very often narratives of the western zionists in your speech.
i respect your anger, but as you can see this is a global war with superpowers included. there are well trained people who know it better. have some trust in educated stategists.
the united snakes must commit itself to fighting infinity wars for israel and giving israel infinity trillions of dollars. anything less is sheer anti shmemitism. chumpo and kabbala must get down on their hands and knees and lick nutteryahoo’s boots till they wear a hole in their tongues. zog must be obeyed. otherwise no more shekels and no more trips to epstein island.
netanyahu is like his jewish brethren in ukraine, begging begging for more money and guns and missiles – truth be told, ain’t much the jews can do by themselves! bet the now outmoded iron doom was paid by the american taxpayers and the arrogant massmurdering jews never even thought that the end of their existence in palestine will be due to their failure to update the doom. trust they will be dead and buried before chritmas!
is there ever any limit to shlomo’s scrounging and panhandling?