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Saudi Missile Defenses May Have Missed, Research Says

Published December 7, 2017 at 11:40 AM CST
In this Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017 released by the U.S. Department of Defense, German soldiers assigned to Surface Air and Missile Defense Wing 1, fire the Patriot weapons system at the NATO Missile Firing Installation, in Chania, Greece. U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin says the company is delivering its Patriot anti-missile system to Saudi Arabia and that the kingdom is on track to become the second international customer, after the United Arab Emirates, to acquire its THAAD system. (Sebastian Apel/U.S. Department of Defense, via AP)
In this Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017 released by the U.S. Department of Defense, German soldiers assigned to Surface Air and Missile Defense Wing 1, fire the Patriot weapons system at the NATO Missile Firing Installation, in Chania, Greece. U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin says the company is delivering its Patriot anti-missile system to Saudi Arabia and that the kingdom is on track to become the second international customer, after the United Arab Emirates, to acquire its THAAD system. (Sebastian Apel/U.S. Department of Defense, via AP)

Last month Saudi Arabia claimed to have shot down a ballistic missile fired at its capital by Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen. An analysis by arms-control experts suggests a different story — the missile merely missed its target, unscathed by Saudi defenses.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk) of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, who led the research team.

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