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Aramco’s Repairs Could Take Months Longer Than Company Anticipates
2019-09-23
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#8  #5 The USN's RAM or the Israeli David's Sling are both off the shelf solutions for attacks like this. The Saudis would'd still have to turn them on though.

And the Saudis would want to buy the joo-cootie free Patriot Pac-4 version of David's Sling. IIUC, it's the same radar/missile combination.
Posted by: The peanut gallery   2019-09-23 20:33  

#7  The Saudi's have been using Pakistani's for years as their main armed forces.
Posted by: Clyde Dribble8052   2019-09-23 19:43  

#6  Hire me. I can fix little problems like this.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2019-09-23 18:00  

#5  I understand they didn't have the anti-air missile systems powered up? If that is true, this is as much their fault for lying naked in the middle of the road. Mad mullahs gonna mad mullah.

Suggest they add a slew of CWIS as well, but only if someone is, like, awake and watching. I guess the land based system is called LPWS.

Come to think of it, why aren't the Navy's Standard Missile (pick a number) set up for land defense? AMRAAM's in rotary magazines like on the B-1's? Jeez.

If the Saudi's can't keep anyone native focused, hire really good mercs.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2019-09-23 17:59  

#4  ...Gas prices here twitched up about 20 cents a gallon, and are slowly headed back down already.

Let 'em eat it.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-09-23 17:43  

#3  Has that been converted to metric?
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-09-23 10:54  

#2  Something about prevention / cure, I think...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-09-23 06:57  

#1  Cheops Law.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-09-23 00:34  

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