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iam surprised that the us still uses patriots to be honest, after all that 'interception' disagreements.
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For a normal country this would be true,but not for USA.The Patriot isn't bad.Specially against aircrafts it is very good (maybe too good,since was seeing everything as hostile sometimes).As antiballistic missed some targets,but they are harder to hit than planes.
The thing is,that USA doesn't really need an exceptional SAM,since her airforce is too strong for any of her potential foes.The SAM is defensive weapon,USA isn't facing any attacker any time soon.So why sweat?It's good enough for the limited defensive needs USA has when deploying forces abroads,so it's fine.
On the contrary for example,Israel that faces a much bigger ballistic threat,wasn't content enough with the Patriot ,so they developed with some US help the Arrow/Arrow 2 family ,which is supposed to be better against such threats.