Patriot missiles

This past weekend, the White House announced it is deploying additional US forces and missile defense systems to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, in response to last week’s attack on the Saudi Aramco‘s oil production facility. Over the past few years, and despite tens of billions in US arms purchases, the Yemeni ‘Houthi’ resistance forces have been able to penetrate further and deeper into Saudi territory and now has proven they can cripple its ene

GOLAN HEIGHTS — Israel’s military has reported that it used two U.S.-made Patriot missiles to shoot down a Syrian Sukhoi fighter jet on Tuesday, with reports indicating that the pilot — identified as Colonel Umran Mare — died soon after his plane crashed.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As with nearly every ballistic missile launched by Yemen’s rebels targeting Saudi Arabia, the kingdom overnight said it intercepted all seven fired — but online videos raise new questions about those claims.
One video appears to show a Patriot missile launch on Sunday night go rapidly wrong, with the missile changing course midair, crashing into a neighborhood in Riyadh and exploding. Another appears to detonate shortly after being launched in the Saudi capital.

(ANTIWAR.COM) The Pentagon issued a statement yesterday confirming that the US State Department has signed off on a $2 billion sale of US-made Patriot missiles to the United Arab Emirates, adding to the tiny Gulf nation’s ever growing military arsenal.

A convoy of UAE military vehicles and personnel travels from Al Hamra Military Base to Zayed Military City, marking the return of the first batch of UAE Armed Forces military personnel from Yemen, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (WAM via AP)