THAAD system during a live-fire test on September 10, 2013 in the vicinity of the U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll/ Reagan Test Site and surrounding areas in the western Pacific. U.S. Army\Missile Defense Agency
The United States may deploy a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system along with troops to operate it in Israel to protect the country in case of an Iranian reaction to an expected Israeli reprisal attack, Hebrew media reported on October 12.
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 missile 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 THAAD systems. Last year, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the deployment of one system and additional Patriot long-range air defense systems -also capable of intercepting ballistic missiles- to the Middle East to increase the protection of U.S. forces and to aid in the defense of Israel.
A U.S. official speaking to The Times of Israel confirmed that U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration was considering transferring the systems to Israel, but said no decision had been made yet.
Iran has been bracing for an Israeli retaliation for its October 1 large-scale missile attack, vowing that it will strike back with full force.
Citing U.S. officials, NBC News reported on October 12 that Israel has narrowed down its list of possible targets for retaliation to military and energy infrastructure in Iran.
There is no indication that Israel will target nuclear facilities or carry out assassinations, the officials told the network, adding that Israel has not made final decisions about how and when to act.
Iran has sent messages to the U.S. via Qatar that it will retaliate if it is attacked, CNN reported on the same day. The network cited a deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps threatening that any attack on Iranian energy infrastructure could result in Tehran targeting energy infrastructure in Israel.
CNN also reported, citing Arab officials, that Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates had informed Washington and Tehran that they would not allow Israel to use their airspace in an attack on Iran. A Jordanian official also told the network that Amman would protect its airspace from any intrusion regardless of origin.
Overall, the U.S. plans to deploy a THAAD system with its operators in Israel indicate that Washington will continue to support Israel even at the cost of engaging in a full-on war with Iran and its allies in the Middle East.
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eh. thaad system is already there and it is operated by u.s. personnel which means boots on the ground for u.s. soldiers in upcoming war against iran.
pentatranny boots on the ground in iran? that’s funny.
oh yes, will be funny. 10 millions of towel heads will be killed on spot and 60 millions will pack their coffers and try to flee in europe. as always when towel heads feel strong enough to start fighting israel. little reminder. towel heads are not welcome in europistan anymore.
wishful thinking.
i don’t understand this. the iron dome 🤡 is so good and nothing can break through it, this iron dome 🤡 -definitely fake news 😆😆😆
going by iran’s warning to israel the other day, it’s more like the iron sieve.
yea, except the judenrats got their asses kicked the last time it faced hezbolla.
hmmm, arabs not welcome in the e.u. wow, big news there. too bad they are infested with zionist infil-traitors, they are worse than cockroaches. when it all comes tumbling down and europeans are saying wtf, they will finally realize the truth when the rats flee their sinking ship. but, where will they go when they become a hunting season of their own? to ukr of course, their real homeland.
the last time the jewish supremacists fought anything approaching a peer, they were so badly mauled that their patron had to bail them out with nickel grass. for the last fifty years they’ve had to stick to massacring women and children and occasionally humiliations by guerillas.
for the imbecilic, iranians are not arabs. iran is there since history began and they will still be there when our part in it ends.
old snooze. borrr-ing. it’ll be as effective as the systems already there, as in not. but, if it makes the squatters feel safe, that’s all that matters. nutty lies to his own as bad as he lies to us. of course, when shit gets real, even israelis will feel that bubble pop, big time. lies and deception works even better on them…then they are shocked to find they have no clothes. isn’t that sad? yeah, but they got it coming. they will cry, as usual, but the world will rejoice. partay time!
this thaad will be really, really, really effective, just like the ironic doom and david’s jockstrap. still, they’ve got to spend all that goy taxpayer money on something.
patriots shot down all missiles ever in service with iraq in 1991. thud will do the same.
unfortunately, completely wrong!
the washington post wrote a wonderful essay about the iron dom vs, saddam’s scrap scud missiles in 1994.
many of saddam’s rockets just broke in the air on re-entry, the iron dom had absolutely nothing to do with it and some of saddam’s rockets hit israel!
i suppose that comment was just lost on you. regardless, iron dome was not around in 1991, nor in 1994. keep up the good work.
send the entire pentacon collection of overpriced garbage and get an a$$ kicking form the persians to match the a$ kicking of the khazar moneys. natostan is burning and urpp will again soon be free of the evil eussr. onward to the civilwar reloaded in $lumville ussa and turd rate patriot$, thad$ and tomahawk$ and 3000 dollah toilet seats won’t help jack squat. z all over the anglozionazi empire of shit.
iran will end up like gaza, but in much bigger scale. this is a bit funny situattion there. everybody condemns actions of the “most moral army” in the world, but that’s all. israel keep 400.000 people there, giving them evacuation orders but not allowing them to escape. they are systematically killing 500 of them per day, the rest awaits it’s destiny, cut off without food, water, medical care and electricity. when it started, everybody has tough predictions how israel will be beaten in gaza,
the fact is that couple hundreds of israeli soldiers were killed in the proces. which means the ratio is 1:1000 or so but it will get bigger and bigger as hamas is almost destroyed and hezbollah is in panic retreat mode.
more wishful thinking.
dude lies worse than ole nutsack. must be an israeli thing. dumb me, of course it is. then again it could be the drugs…the ones they stash in their diapers. they say it’s really good shit. hahahahaha…
it’s a natural talent, a genetic thing, refined by years of practice.
oh, come on…you can lie better than that. why not make it 10,000 to 1? it’s sounds even more fantastic. it is all bullshit, but whatever, standard crap from lyin zion. tell about the real casualty list 10,000 idf dead, 10s of 1000s more wounded and maimed for life. israel, the land of missing limbs. hey, that would be a great start-up, fake limbs for fake people. we hear there is even greater potential for custom coffins, especially those big buckets for little pieces.
lol. hahahahahahaha. please stop! i can’t breathe. you have to a hindu extremist stand up comedian. you are firing jokes left and right. you are all over the place. lol
iran has many air defense so nope
lol. your are funny
yea, except the judenrats got their asses kicked the last time it faced hezbolla.
if the judenrats can’t handle hezbolla, they certainly cannot handle iran.
as expected israel’s subordinates in washington are ensuring us mission creep, so sooner or later israel will be defended to last us service man and woman. oy vey.
i rather agree with the small correction. israel will not defend itself, it intends to expand. gaza will be wiped off the map, the inhabitants will be slaughtered to the last tone. lebanon will be divided in half, southern lebanon will be occupied by israel, and the citizens will be killed or flee to the northern part. as for iran and its allies, israel will escalate its attacks on syria and iraq, and the u.s. marines will destroy the iranian regime.
as for the arab world and russia, they will have few speeches in the un and that is it. as always, the rothschilds projects on their new world kosher order have no resistance. in the us, another war in the middle east is very unpopular, but this time israel doesn’t care. take my word for it, they’re going to attack iran before the u.s. elections. and they’re going to send kamala and her cheerleading squad to the hell. united states are treated as jeews whores which they are
one can only hope they do attack iran. it will be the last thing they do…forever. the unfortunate thing is that palestinians will have to sweep up the pieces, but who would be able to tell which piece went where? just set up burning barrels, make those ‘remains’ feel right at home. problem solved, everyone happy, it’s all good.
“the best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / gang aft a-gley.” robert burns
marines lol. couldn’t knock a sick granny off a piss pot. humiliated by jungle bunnies and goat herders.
kinda makes one feel sad for israelis. not. yep, that old expanding balloon will pop, then the limb-less brain-dead will see it was filled with bullshit, not just hot air. this is what happens when liars believe their own lies. then the suicides and mass exodus begins. well, dang, blew that didn’t i? that’s already happening, it started about a year ago. israel, the land that never was and soon never will be.
the marines fled afghanistan. they fled vietnam. they fled iraq. long game for the jewish supremacists in palestine suicide.
lol. hahahahahaha. you are saying jokes here too?
yet more wishful thinking, as for lebanon, israel tried that in the 1978 – 1982, and it didn’t work. and as for the us marines destroying iran. lol, they are kittens who think they are lions, and they should remember what happened to them on 23 october 1983.
according to their general, us troops are “happy” to die for israel.
stop-loss and intersectional troops on seroquel will save the day!
that general is probably a little hat, as a lot of them now are.
in tel aviv gay bar otawa tratz get rammed by mulattos
that was the intentions of biden when he removed the sanctions on iran imo
will do no better against iran’s hypersonic missiles than the obsolete crap supplied by the fahclsts did against russian hypersonics.
thaad was already deployed in israel but was destroyed by irans latest missile barrage. so another one is needed…
the complete patriot systems getting smoked in ukraine are $1 billion ($1,000,000,000) a pop. this is probably the same. i don’t think they produce them any more.
yanquies don’t produce anything any more, it’s all made in china…….
maybe against one or two missiles but useless against hypersonics
so the iranian strike was far more effective then the zionist where letting on…😎
despite being described as the “strongest army”, the jews (“israel”) have failed to defeat unarmed palestinian women and children, and instead calling on the us for help. the televised genocide continues with u.s. blessing and arms on behalf of the satanic jewz.
if the iranian/hezbollah/hamas/houthi missile attacks are a complete joke and totally ineffectual, then why is genocide joe putting his little missiles and his little soldiers in talmudistan? just asking. israel cannot defend itself. it cannot do anything without its shabbos goys.