06-09-2025, 02:08 PM
(06-09-2025, 01:06 PM)Goose Wrote: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-adminis...54257.html
It is unclear to me what 20,000 "anti-Shaheds" missiles would be used for in the Middle East. Iran has already twice attempted to use massive strikes using a large number of these drones. None of them got through. Clearly Israel doesn't need these missiles. So where are they actually going? Qatar?
Does anybody have a guess on what type of missiles are involved in this transfer? I haven't yet seen that explicitly reported.
UPDATE: Looks like these.
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/u-s-redir...ddle-east/
Potentially, they could have shielded Ukraine from Russian drone attacks for a while. Perhaps the diversion from Ukraine was the whole point, not where they go to.
The article you referenced said:
Quote:Although the systems were purchased under a program designated for Ukraine, U.S. law permits the Secretary of Defense to reallocate the equipment to American forces in cases of “urgent need.”
I'm not aware of any "urgent need" by American forces in the Middle East.