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Your daily UAE is under attack thread

There seems to be a pattern developing.

Amnesty International has said the laser-guided bomb used by the Saudi-led coalition to hit a detention centre in Saada, northwestern Yemen, that killed 91 people had been manufactured by US defence company Raytheon.

This “is the latest piece in a wider web of evidence of the use of US-manufactured weapons in incidents that could amount to war crimes”, the watchdog said.
 
There seems to be a pattern developing.

Amnesty International has said the laser-guided bomb used by the Saudi-led coalition to hit a detention centre in Saada, northwestern Yemen, that killed 91 people had been manufactured by US defence company Raytheon.

This “is the latest piece in a wider web of evidence of the use of US-manufactured weapons in incidents that could amount to war crimes”, the watchdog said.
How are they getting into the arms of rebels is yet to be investigated
 
"The Pentagon also said US forces in the UAE activated Patriot missile defences but that it was the UAE’s surface-to-air interceptors that actually struck down the incoming missile."

Must have been PAC-2's. PAC-3's don't miss.
 
"The Pentagon also said US forces in the UAE activated Patriot missile defences but that it was the UAE’s surface-to-air interceptors that actually struck down the incoming missile."

Must have been PAC-2's. PAC-3's don't miss.
What’s the difference?
 
-1.... (I could not resist that.)

In my avatar, I am looking at a half-scale model of a PAC-3.

My baby.
 
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"The Pentagon also said US forces in the UAE activated Patriot missile defences but that it was the UAE’s surface-to-air interceptors that actually struck down the incoming missile."

Must have been PAC-2's. PAC-3's don't miss.
Activated doesn’t mean fired. I believe a PAC3 has never missed even in a test. I believe a heard one time it took the second missile to hit the target.
 
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