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Yesterday, Washington revealed that is sending a THAAD battery (a type of ballistic missile defense system) to aid its fascist puppets in Tel Aviv. However, THAADs are not "wonder weapons". Iran has the ability to counter this system. Snip:

However, the equation changes with the Kheibar Shekan-2, which has a longer range of 1,800 kilometers compared to the 1,450-kilometer range of the Kheibar Shekan-1.

The Kheibar Shekan-2’s more aerodynamic glide vehicle allows it to "trade" its extended range for low-altitude gliding, keeping it below the THAAD system’s engagement envelope, particularly at altitudes below 35 kilometers.

This enables the missile to bypass THAAD entirely and effectively and reach its target.

While this maneuver places significant heat stress on the Kheibar Shekan-2’s glide vehicle, it is an effective method to evade THAAD and strike its intended targets, possibly including THAAD batteries themselves.

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[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Iran's older stocks of missiles easily defeated not only Israel's latest interceptors (coordinated by an identical copy of the X band radar used in a THAAD battery) but also multiple American SM-3 interceptors, which are the closest equivalent to THAAD and provide the same role to the US Navy.

Even if THAAD was somehow superior to every missile Iran has, Iran has more, and cheaper, missiles that will simply overwhelm the Americans until their batteries reveal their locations and get yeeted in a saturation attack

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