"Interceptors."
As in the missiles
that shoot down the missiles.
(Link above goes to every use of that word on this blog.
Hey? Do your own searching lol)
Friday, October 13, 2023
"It's pretty simple really, you just overwhelm your adversary with your more technologically advanced weapons that you have plenty of (and they are cheaper than the interceptors) and you make your adversary use up all of their (more expensive and harder to produce) interceptor missiles."
Friday, September 20, 2024
("More like Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and it's proxies in Syria and Iraq..."
(Hamas, Hezbollah, and it's (Irans) proxies in Syria and Iraq.
have all largely been neutralized at this point.
What happened to the Houthis BTW?
They've been quiet all the sudden.)
Im trying to tell you right now this has been common knowledge for years now, it doesn't matter if your missiles are non accurate shit, you fire a shit ton more of them than the other team has interceptors, (and cheap ass drones) and then what?'
Friday, October 18, 2024
How Vulnerable Is Israel to Iran’s Attacks?
October 16, 2024
Thanks for the heads up:
"Iran is not the only threat the United States faces. Over time, the U.S. military can’t necessarily afford to have its ships constantly expending interceptors."
(Why do you think Iran has been doing
what it has been doing?)
"This is why missile defense can be a strategic challenge—one that has to do with questions including defense production, as previously noted, but also alliance relationships, and political questions such as threat prioritization. The United States should also spread its limited missile defense capabilities against other looming threats from China, North Korea, and Russia. The constant expenditure of resources, and the potential that allies’ tolerance for repeated joint defensive efforts may wane with time, will undoubtedly influence how U.S. and Israeli leaders think about what to do next."
Monday, April 24, 2023
"The Pentagon papers also tell us that Ukraine’s air defenses are very badly depleted, either destroyed by the Russians or lacking ammunition. Even interceptors for the US Patriot air defense system delivered to Ukraine are currently unavailable unless replacement missiles are yanked from US and European operational units."
(Almost like somebody had a plan huh?
Imagine that.)
Seriously, are you not seeing the coordinated plan
from our adversaries at this point?
Friday, October 11, 2024
(The whole strategy is to get them to use up their interceptors, thus making a nuclear payload much more likely to get through. Recent analysis of the last Iranian missile attack has shown Iran can get through Israel's air defenses.)
(That was yours truly BTW.)
Friday, October 4, 2024
"It is possible that the Arrow system failed to perform as expected, Lewis says, but he thinks it's more likely that Israel may have decided not to defend Nevatim, in order to save its interceptors to protect population centers like Tel Aviv."
(This is the whole problem.
Iran has way more missiles
than Israel does interceptors.)
Friday, October 18, 2024
"The problem is compounded by limited magazines (the firing capacity of a ship or land-based interceptor). For instance, during both of Iran’s attacks, U.S. Navy ships helped intercept ballistic missiles. Out of a U.S. destroyer’s 90 vertical launch cells, however, not all are dedicated to interceptors. Some of those cells are reserved for the ship’s self-defense capabilities, such as anti-submarine rockets. The more salvos a ship is forced to engage, the sooner it has to return to port and reload, which takes time. Not all of the navy’s destroyers and cruisers are equipped for ballistic missile defense, either. Land-based missile batteries, too, must rearm. Therefore, missile defense has as much to do with the defender’s in-theater magazine depth and industrial base capacity to produce interceptors, as it does with its general technical capabilities.
(We simply dont have the :
"industrial base capacity"
to produce the interceptors needed.
This is what offshoring
(read GREED.)
all your industrial base gets you.
A defense industry designed
to maximize profits.
Not protect its populace.
"The challenge is heightened by the fact that sometimes multiple interceptors need to be fired to ensure a single missile is destroyed. Even the most sophisticated defensive systems can’t hit their targets with 100 percent accuracy, partly for reasons described above (e.g., the need to hit inbound missiles directly). Instead, missile defenses hit their targets a portion of the time. Even a 90 percent “probability of kill” may not good enough if the inbound ballistic missile is headed toward a populated area or critical infrastructure, for example. Therefore, to achieve a higher certainty of intercept, the defender would fire two or more interceptors at a single missile, putting the exchange ratio in favor of the attacker."
(As stated above?
China, Russia and Iran all already
figured this out a long time ago.)
"Interceptors are much more complicated and much more expensive, and therefore take more time to produce, than the missiles fired by the attacker.
Our adversaries figured this out a while back
and have been preparing for this moment ever since."
(Yours truly again.)
"Faced with a single salvo attack, a defender such as Israel may not be particularly challenged if they have an adequate stockpile of interceptors. But if an aggressor such as Iran makes repeated attacks over time it can become a strategic problem:
as the tit-for-tat exchange
plays out over weeks or months,
the defender spends down its missiles
faster than the attacker.
Israel faced one attack in April, another in October, and it could yet face another."
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
(That is another reason this is SO significant.
The JV team
(Iranians)
can and probably will
overwhelm and exhaust
Israeli air defenses.
(Eventually)
And if they can do that?
They can get us to exhaust
some of our carrier groups
missile defenses as well.
Right as were leading into
China and Taiwan etc.)
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Axios 2/6/25
"Why it matters:
This tenuous deal
follows a beefed-up U.S. presence
in the greater Middle East
and
months of
missile-and-drone exchanges
that
chewed through
coveted
stateside
stockpiles."
And do not forget this
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
"Iranian FM to visit China
"Baghaei, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, said that the country’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, will visit China on Tuesday, (yesterday) ahead of the third round of nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington, due on Saturday in Oman."
(He did.)
"In a trip to Moscow last week, Araghchi told state TV that Tehran always closely consults with its friends, Russia and China, over the nuclear issue."
Given everything listed above?
Do you think thats all they talked about?
OKAY SO,
UNDERSTAND:
What is really under attack,
is our and Israels weakness:
Our lack of an
"industrial base capacity
to produce interceptors"
Anybody else says any different?
They are leaving out our adversaries having planed for this for a very long time, as well as, they are not seeing the 3-D chess board in its entirety.
to be able to see it in its entirety.
Rose-tinted by the blood of Christ.
IRANS STRATEGY
HAS ALWAYS BEEN
TO SURVIVE,
UNTILL ISRAEL AND THE US SHIPS
AND GROUND BASED
MISSILE DEFENSES SYSTEMS
IN THE REGION
RUN OUT OF INTERCEPTORS.
THEN LAUNCH AN OVERWHELMING SALVO
OF MISSILES ALL AT ONCE.
Their main problem with doing that now is
Israel has taken out command and control
making such a coordinated attack
from multiple disperse locations
extremely difficult,
but not impossible.
Now to the recent Headlines
concerning interceptors:
Israel and US exhausting supplies of
ballistic missile interceptors, source says
Israel is racing against time to destroy Iran's launch capabilities as interceptor supplies run thin, former officials say
06/16/25
"Israel is using its ballistic missile interceptors at a rapid clip after four days of war with Iran, a senior US official familiar with efforts to resupply Israel told Middle East Eye."
"In some quarters of the US government, there are concerns that a direct US strike on Iran could lead to bigger Iranian retaliation against Israel that would drain the US’s global stockpile of missile interceptors to a “horrendous” level, the official said."
"Israel relies on a three-tiered air defence system, and Iran’s attacks are challenging its most sophisticated defences."
"The Iron Dome is used to shoot down short-range rockets and drones fired by groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. The second level is David’s Sling, which can intercept heavier rockets along with some ballistic missiles. The Arrow 2 and 3 systems are used to down ballistic missiles, with the latter able to shoot down exoatmospheric hypersonic missiles."
"Replenishing the Arrow systems has been a perennial problem for Israel."
"MEE reported in September that Israel was struggling to replenish Arrow interceptors after Iran’s first attack on Israel in April last year. The US and Israel jointly produce Arrow interceptors."
“The types of interceptors that are required to shoot down ballistic missiles are expensive and difficult to produce in mass quantities,” Dan Caldwell, a former senior Department of Defense official in the Trump administration, who opposed military confrontation with Iran, wrote on X."
“I will assume Israel has stockpiled a decent number of Arrows and Stunners for its David's Sling but they have to had expend[ed] many of those against the Houthis and during Iran's previous missile attacks last year. It is therefore likely that Israel and US are going to have to start rationing their interceptors soon,” he added.
"Iran has fired at least 370 ballistic missiles at Israel since 13 June, the Israeli prime minister's press office said on Monday."
"Thin margins
One advantage Israel enjoys that may help address the shortage of interceptors is its air superiority over Iran, which it appears to have obtained within four days of bombing."
"Israeli warplanes are operating over Tehran in daylight hours. According to Israel’s military, they have taken out about one-third of Iran’s surface-to-surface missile launch capabilities."
(Not near enough.)
"Josh Paul, a former US State Department official who resigned in protest against US support for Israel’s war on Gaza, told MEE that Israel has selectively targeted Iran’s launch capabilities."
“We don’t know how much more Iran can launch. I think it is a problem more of launchers than missiles,” he said. However, the two US officials MEE spoke with said that Iran is still holding back in its missile attacks, partly at least to avoid the US directly joining Israel in offensive operations.
(Horseshit, its sandbagging just like the Russians have done in Ukraine. They are waiting till the US and Israel are out of interceptors, as has been shown, that has been the plan all along.
And that is why the phrase:
"partly at least"
was used.)
"Three Arab officials, including some whose countries are mediating between the US and Iran, told MEE on Monday that they believe the US is more likely than not to directly intervene in Israel’s offensive strikes."
(Since Vietnam?
When have we ever seen
a serious conflict we didn't join?
Understand why Kennedy was taken out now?
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Is because they just don't wanna.
Deep inside, people know its the truth.)
"The US’s carefully constructed line between intervening or not is growing thinner, though. Several current and former US officials who spoke to MEE described the US as “co-belligerent” to the conflict because it is actively participating in Israel’s defence."
"The US is trying to make up for a shortfall in Israel’s own interceptors, the officials say."
(Good luck
Refer to:
"This tenuous deal
follows a beefed-up U.S. presence
in the greater Middle East
and
months of
missile-and-drone exchanges
that
chewed through
coveted
stateside
stockpiles."
if needed.)
"The US has shot down Iranian missiles using at least one Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence antimissile battery in Israel. The US also has several Patriot antimissile batteries across the region."
(Couple of facts to consider:
1) A THAAD battery consists of
at least six launcher vehicles,
each equipped with eight missiles,
with two mobile tactical operations centers (TOCs) and the AN/TPY-2 ground-based radar (GBR).
6x8=48 interceptors pretty simple.
Lets just say they have twice that many:
12x8 = 96 interceptors.
2) Eighth THAAD battery delivered to U.S. military
06/19/25
that was today BTW.
So even if all 8 THADD systems have 96 interceptors?
8x96=768.
And Iran alone has THOUSANDS of ballistic missile that haven't been fired yet, that's not even thinking about, North Korea, China, Russia etc...)
"Notably, a separate US defence official confirmed to MEE on Monday that the US has fired SM-3 air-defence missiles to protect Israel."
"The SM-3 is the ship-mounted version of the Patriot. The official said the USS Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyer participated in Israel's defence from the eastern Mediterranean."
"Defence analysts noted that during the US’s 2024 campaign against the Houthis in Yemen,
the US Navy fired
a year’s worth of SM-3 interceptors
in a single day."
(Reference:
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
"As the war between Israel and Iran enters its fifth day, the US is sending more military assets into the theatre of operations.
("Since Vietnam?
When have we ever seen a serious conflict we didn't join?"
All this:
"What is Trump going to do?"
garbage being peddled to the masses
might as well be
a General Hospital
or Days of Our lives episode,
its so staged and managed.
Monday, September 30, 2024
US boosts air support and hikes troop readiness to deploy for Middle East
"The U.S. military said on Sunday it was increasing its air support capabilities in the Middle East and putting troops on a heightened readiness to deploy to the region as it warned Iran against expanding the ongoing conflict."
"The announcement came two days after President Joe Biden directed the Pentagon to adjust U.S. force posture in the Middle East amid intensifying concern that Israel's killing of the leader of Iran-backed Hezbollah could prompt Tehran to retaliate."
(Everything was pretty much in place before he ever said anything, go figure right?)
See: Thursday, September 26, 2024
That)
"The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier is en route from the South China Sea to the Middle East, according to ship tracking data. The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson is already in the Middle East."
Israel running low on air defence,
missiles can last just 10-12 days: Report
06/18/25
"In Short:
Israel's interceptor stockpiles depleting
amid relentless Iranian missile fire
Arrow missiles cost $3 million each,
straining defence budget rapidly
Without US resupply,
Israel's interception capacity may collapse in 10 days
(Now were down to 8-10 days
and how in the world are we gonna
resupply Israel when:
"This tenuous deal
follows a beefed-up U.S. presence
in the greater Middle East
and
months of
missile-and-drone exchanges
that
chewed through
coveted
stateside
stockpiles."
??????????)
"Despite claiming major successes against Iran's military infrastructure, Israel is rapidly depleting its supply of long-range missile interceptors, raising alarm over the sustainability of its defence systems, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a US official familiar with allied intelligence assessments."
The report came amid relentless missile exchanges between Israel and Iran. Since Israel launched Operation Rising Lion last Friday, Iranian forces have fired roughly 400 ballistic missiles — part of an estimated arsenal of 2,000 capable of reaching Israeli territory.
(Ive seen other reports saying its upwards of 3000.)
"Israeli defences, particularly the Arrow system designed to intercept high-altitude ballistic missiles, have managed to neutralise most incoming projectiles, but not without significant strain."
"Officials in Tel Aviv told WSJ that one-third of Iran's missile launchers have been destroyed and claim to have achieved air superiority over Iranian skies. Still, intelligence sources warned that over half of Iran's missile inventory remains intact, with a portion likely concealed in underground facilities."
(Once Israel and the US spend our interceptors?
Israel will be susceptible to missile attacks from Iran
much like Kiev is now to Russian missile attacks.
Think it aint gonna happen?)
"The cost of maintaining Israel's layered missile defence — comprising the Iron Dome, David's Sling, the Arrow system, and US-supplied Patriots and THAAD batteries — is becoming a critical concern. Israeli financial daily The Marker estimated that nightly missile defence operations are costing up to 1 billion shekels ($285 million). The Arrow system alone fires interceptors priced at $3 million each."
(See above about:
OKAY SO,
UNDERSTAND:
What is really under attack,
is our and Israels weakness:
Our lack of an
"industrial base capacity
to produce interceptors")
"With Iranian missile barrages continuing almost daily, Israeli air defence stockpiles are now under severe pressure.
Without rapid resupply from the United States
(HOW?)
or direct intervention, Israel can maintain its missile defence for 10 or 12 more days if Iran maintains a steady tempo of attacks, a source briefed on US and Israeli intelligence told WSJ. "The system is already overwhelmed. Soon, they may have to choose which missiles to intercept," the source said."
(And you and me and the Irainians
will be able to see tell when that is happening:
"Soon they may have to choose
which missiles to intercept"
"That strain is beginning to show. On Friday night, Iranian missiles evaded Israel's defences and struck near the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv. On Sunday, a direct hit forced the shutdown of a major oil refinery near Haifa. And on Tuesday morning, verified social media videos captured
multiple Iranian missile impacts
close to Israel's intelligence compound
north of Tel Aviv."
"While Israel's offensive strikes have reportedly dealt heavy blows to Iran's capabilities, including military bases, oil infrastructure, and nuclear-linked sites, the broader conflict now hinges on whether Israel can continue defending its skies without exhausting its most-advanced and expensive missile shield."
(That is exactly what I told my friends over dinner last night.
Not only in this conflict but everywhere.
The people with the cheap ballistic missiles
have a built in advantage
over the people that are trying to shoot them down.
Our adversaries figured this out years ago
and are now beginning to employee that advantage
in Ukraine, in this conflict
and most assuredly in what is to follow:
Taiwan , China, Pacific etc.
Kinda been our adversaries game plan
for a long time now.
This is why I don't listen to the likes of Ben Sahpiro et al.
They aint gonna tell you what I do.
Etc.
And on a lil side note?
I have never seen the scriptural justification for
priest of preachers having to be celibate.
The horrendous results of that policy
speak for themselves.
(And it wasnt always that way BTW).
But if people wanna use the abuses that arose
(as a direct result of that policy)
as some kind of justification
for rejecting their creator?
Or use the sexual predators
of the Southern Baptist Convention
or the LGBTQ+ in the UMC?
as some kind of justification
for rejecting their creator?
Well then go right ahead.
Have it your way.
Still love ya,
still pulling for the Holy Spirit
to find its way into your heart,
still be your friend,
still hang out,
have a good time
socialize etc.
And going to a mountain top?
Or anywhere else for that matter
aint gonna save you
from the ruler of the universe.
Revelation 6:15-17
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come;
and who shall be able to stand?
Gods wrath?
Still about three
and a half years away.
"There aint no hiding place
from the father of creation
Believe that!"
You already know who.
RNM
Eternity is along time.
I pray you make
an informed decision about it.
I really do.
