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3_Limes

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2. It's 'first line' defensive capability, that would be deployed against an initial attack are spectacularly good.
Sat Mar 28, 2026, 03:57 PM
Mar 28

But very, very expensive.

Being a neighbor, Iran has had ample opportunity to observe this system and has found a pretty obvious weakness in that Israel can't keep firing 20 million dollar missiles for a very long stretch.

Had any actual military tactician been involved in planning this fiasco that weakness would have been pointed out at the first meeting. But you already know what happened there.

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