than you are being led to believe.
of all Patriot missile interceptors needed
Exclusive: Low stockpiles for the crucial Patriot missile interceptors
led to Trump administration pausing transfers to Ukraine
Guardian 07/08/25
(Well Qatar really helped US out
then firing 200 of em
at 19 Iranian missiles.
Oh and they were tipped off
early in the Am by the Iranians BTW.
I smell a rat.
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
"As Iran launched a retaliatory ballistic missile attack last month, troops defended Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar with scores of Patriot air defense missiles — a high-demand munition the U.S. only has in limited supply.'
(Qatar tells of huge cost of Iranian missile attack
The National (UAE)
06/30/25
"Qatar deployed three Patriot air defence batteries in two locations and more than 200 missiles to down all but one of 20 missiles fired on the night of Monday, June 23, said Mr Al Ansari, who is also adviser to Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani."
(I have read probably eight different sources about that incident.
Only the one above gives the actual #'s of interceptors fired.
It aint hard why the Iranians let em know they were coming.)
"Mr Al Ansari refuted the idea that the attack was co-ordinated with the Iranians, although he said the first warning that missiles were on the way came on the morning of June 23, hours before the first one was launched around 7.30pm.
See:
"I smell a rat above."
If we are debating?
Whether to send Ukraine 48 or 10?
patriot interceptors?
And the Qataris fired 200 of em?
How many you think they got left
to defend against another attack?
"It houses the Qatar Emiri Air Force, United States Air Force (USAF), United Kingdom Royal Air Force (RAF), and other foreign forces. It is host to a forward headquarters of U.S. Central Command, headquarters of the USAF Central Command, No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group RAF, and the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing of the USAF."
And it is currently,
a sitting duck.
Oh yeah, "12 day war" etc.)
Now we can get to the piece:)
"The United States only has about 25% of the Patriot missile interceptors it needs for all of the Pentagon’s military plans after burning through stockpiles in the Middle East in recent months, an alarming depletion that led to the Trump administration freezing the latest transfer of munitions to Ukraine."
"But the determination last month to halt the transfer, as described by four people directly familiar with the matter, was based in large part on the Pentagon’s global munitions tracker, which is used to generate the minimum level of munitions required to carry out the US military’s operations plans."
"According to the tracker, which is managed by the joint chiefs of staff and the Pentagon’s defense security cooperation agency, the stockpiles of a number of critical munitions have been below that floor for several years since the Biden administration started sending military aid to Ukraine."
"The Trump administration started a review of the depleted level of Patriot missiles and other munitions around February, the people said. Deliberations accelerated after the US deployed more of the interceptors in the Middle East to support the Houthi campaign and to Israel."
(Thats why we had a ceasefire with the Houthis yo.
Said it when it happened.)
"The situation also became more acute following Trump’s move to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities last month, the people said, when the US fired close to 30 Patriot missiles to intercept Iranian ballistic missiles fired in performative retaliation at the Al Udeid base in Qatar.'
(As shown above
Qatar fired 200.
We fired 30.
Were discussing 10 or 48 at this point to give to Ukraine
and out adversaries have 10's of 1000's of missiles
that we are gonna need to shoot down.
I been doing this a long time.
I know how it works.
When eight different platforms
dont tell you how many were fired
in defense of
Al Udeid Air Base?
THERE IS A REASON FOR THAT!)
"But the abrupt pause has come at a critical time for Ukraine, as Russia last week launched its largest aerial offensive to date and Ukraine has limited options to acquire both precision-guided and more basic weapons to hold off increasingly intense Russian attacks."
"Ukraine is also largely unable to directly buy weapons from defense contractors for its purposes, since a new order is estimated to take years to fulfill, and it would only be completed after the Pentagon had its own orders completed since the defense department is a higher priority customer."
(Somebody knew he could outlast us.
and he has.
This was the game plan all along.)
"While Trump has publicly complained about Ukraine aid in financial terms, Feinberg was briefed that the larger problem has been with the ability for the US to manufacture the weapons to quickly backfill the depleted stockpiles, two of the people said.'
(Our lack of industrial capacity
to manufacture the weapons
we need, is what is
and what has been, under attack.
It is our Achilles heel.
And our adversaries knew it
and prepared for this
a long long time ago.)
"The principal concern appears to revolve around the Patriot missiles, which the US produces 600 per year but Iran alone has more than 1,000 ballistic missiles remaining it could theoretically use against US bases in the region if the ceasefire with Israel were to break down."
(Seen that number twice now,
"more than 1,000 ballistic missiles remaining"
From what I have read up until this week and seeing that?
It's More like 2500 ballistic missiles remaining.
Its still more than 100 right?
Iran didnt fire but a few at a time during those 12 days.
And the wildcard in the whole thing is...
drum roll please...
THE HOUTHIS.
What do they have left?
Nobody is talking about that much anymore.)
Report: Iranian ballistic missiles
struck five IDF bases during war
The Times of Israel 07/06/25
"Satellite data from US university said to reveal strikes on intelligence base airbase and other facilities; number of successful interceptions decreased daily for first 8 days"
Iranian ballistic missiles struck five Israeli military bases during the 12-day war with last month, The Telegraph reported on Saturday for the first time, citing satellite data shared by Oregon State University.
"Details of strikes on Israel Defense Forces bases and other sensitive locations are prevented from being published in Israel due to military censorship rules, as authorities argue that they could be used by Iran to better calibrate its missiles."
"But according to the British news outlet, targeted bases included the Tel Nof airbase, the Glilot intelligence base, and the Zipporit armor and weapons production base."
"The report was based on radar data obtained by The Telegraph from Oregon State University, which tracks bomb damage in war zones via satellites."
"According to the report, five IDF bases were struck with a total of six rockets during the war between Israel and Iran, launched by Israel on June 13 to dismantle the Islamic Republic’s nuclear and missile programs."
"In addition to the six rockets said to have struck military bases, 36 other missiles impacted inside Israel, having evaded interception by Israeli and US air defenses..."
(So thats 42 that got by
"Israeli and US air defenses"
Arrow and five US aegsis ships.
And Iran didn't even
fire a whole mess of em.
And they didnt even start firing
their more high tech missiles
till near the end of the 12 days.
And 42 of what they did fire
got past every one of those
air defense systems listed above.
So yeah:
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Iran Launches First Strike on Israel
Using Mach 13+ Fattah Hypersonic Missile:
Can it Turn the Tide of the War?
"The success rates of Iranian ballistic missile strikes has already far exceeded the expectations of most Western assessments, and is expected to continue to rise as the Israeli surface-to-air missile arsenal is increasingly depleted. The Israeli Arrow, Barak 8 and David’s Sling systems capable of intercepting medium range missile attacks are estimated to have only a very small number of interceptors available compared to the size of the Iranian arsenals, with support from U.S. Army THAAD anti-missile systems based in Israel and from nearby U.S. Navy AEGIS destroyers only partly alleviating pressure on the Israeli network.')
"In total, Iran launched over 500 ballistic missiles at Israel throughout the 12-day war, The Islamic Republic also launched around 1,100 drones, of which only one impacted inside Israel."
(So 2500 or so left.
Not
"more than 1000"
like The Guardian
and Fox News
would have you believe.
In case you havent noticed?
I aint allowed to sugar coat shit.)
"While the overall interception success rate was high, the report found that an increasing number of missiles managed to slip through defense systems each day during the first eight days of the war."
(Look at what all it took to get
that high interception rate:
Arrow and five US aegsis ships.)
"All in all, The Telegraph said its data analysis indicated that by day seven of the war, around 16 percent of missiles were slipping through Israeli and US air defense systems."
(All it takes is one nuclear weapon.
One.
Israel is a small country.)
"The reason for the drop in interceptions was unclear, The Telegraph said, but it noted that Israel may have been choosing to save its interceptor missiles for when they were most needed."
"The Wall Street Journal had reported during the war that Israel was running low on its Arrow interceptor missiles, and that it would need to start picking and choosing what to intercept and what to let through. The IDF denied the report, however, saying that it had prepared ahead of time with enough to handle the threat."
"Another reason suggested by The Telegraph for the decline in interceptions was the type of missiles Iran was choosing to fire. It posited that these may have been more sophisticated, and therefore harder to shoot down."
"The IDF, when asked by the Telegraph about the reported impacts inside military facilities, said that it would not comment on the matter."
"Israel said its sweeping assault on Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites, and ballistic missile program was necessary to prevent the Islamic Republic from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state."
That is what their goal is.
It hasnt changed
no matter how bad you may think:
"We kicked their ass."
(Hardly BTW)
and they simply will not stop.
It is the whole reason
for the existence of the Iranian regime
to begin with.
If only we had a playbook
to tell us what was going on.