Israel is facing a potential shortage of defense system interceptor missiles as it bolsters air defenses against possible attacks from Iran and its proxies, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
Stroul also noted that the US cannot indefinitely sustain supply efforts for both Ukraine and Israel, as resources are reaching a critical limit.
Moreover, Boaz Levy, CEO of Israel Aerospace Industries, the state-owned manufacturer of Arrow interceptors for shooting down ballistic missiles, told the Financial Times that he was operating on triple shifts to keep the production lines active.
“Some of our lines are working 24 hours, seven days a week. Our goal is to meet all our obligations,” Levy explained. He further noted that the production time for interceptor missiles was “not a matter of days,” while the size of Israel’s interceptor missiles stockpiles are not accessible to the public, Levy emphasized that, “It is no secret that we need to replenish stocks.”
This could explain the extra THAAD systems being sent to Israel. It is manufactured by Lockheed Martin and uses different missiles.
And why not all of Iran’s missiles were intercepted.
There’s a low chance that this is a story about actual shortages that would indicate a weakness in Israel’s missile defenses and very high chance this is about the weapons industry trying to milk more money from the US and Israeli governments.
Israel arrested some journalists for merely reporting on missile strikes. I have a hard time believing an Israeli weapons exec is dishing with a foreign paper on their weakness or the Jerusalem Post would get approval from the censors to write about it, even if the Financial Times had already done so.
America had a large amount of interceptor missiles in supply. However after thousands of rockets it is not unthinkable the missile factory cannot keep up. Hezbollah is firing 100 rockets into Israel every single day.
It could be similar to the artillery munition for Ukraine which ran out because production could not keep up.
It’s certainly very feasible. They just would be very unlikely to be commenting on or printing this story if that was the whole story.
Good.
Oh no! Who could have prevented this!
Rabin, presumably.
Peace?
lol
Don’t worry, I’m sure the US.A. will offer a weekly Groupon deal with free shipping.
If they didn’t want to find out, maybe they shouldn’t have fucked around.
@geneva_convenience that’s really, really, too bad:(
Looks like the US de-industrializing for short term profits to feed the oligarchy wasn’t such a good idea … hmmm
