Israel conserved its air defense interceptors during the war on Iran, while the US expended significant portions of its own high-tech stockpiles, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing anonymous US officials.
American forces used more than 200 THAAD interceptors, around half of the total US stockpile, and over 100 SM-3 and SM-6 missiles, three officials told the outlet. Israel, by contrast, allegedly used only 100 Arrow interceptors and 90 David’s Sling interceptors, some of them against less advanced missiles fired from Yemen and Lebanon.
“The United States absorbed most of the missile defense mission while Israel conserved its own magazines,” the newspaper quoted Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center think tank, as saying. The figures suggest a “lopsided dynamic,” WaPo wrote, although the Pentagon and the Israeli government both defended the balance of resources used.
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