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There are 150 planes registered with the FAA implicated in drug running. They buy them in South Florida and Delaware, do as many runs until they get caught and the same aircraft companies buy them back at auction and sell them back to the same drug cartels. That is on top of the drones, the...

When Mexican cartels can fly drug shipments into the country it tells you how much that is worth.

Not even the US could afford that for 24/7 coverage of all of its territory and bases. The best you could do is put up enough AWACs for a limited area and time of tension. SKA is under threat of attack any time and any place and it is not a small country like Oman that can concentrate its air...

The question is who is going to all of the expense to build and maintain that?

No one really uses aerostat based radars or radar masts high enough to detect them at range. Being at tree-top level cruise missiles get lost in ground clutter even when trying to detect them from top-down. They can be made of composites and with a RAM coat like SCALP they have the RCS of a...

80s radar was not designed to detect cruise missiles, the threat didn't exist and SKA has refused to upgrade them to Crotale NG. They were relying on the Patriot batteries for something they are incapable of dealing with but they have learned it is not an complete solution. The state of Oman...

They have no problem shooting at things they can see. When the PAC-3 can't detect cruise missiles it is a failing of the system and not the soldier. Hopefully SKA will order VL Mica so they can protect their assets from this new threat.

It is suspected that it was an Iranian cruise missile that hit the oil refinery. For that a Patriot or THAAD defence is not going to detect it. The Saudis have a serious lack of short range defence around their strategic infrastructure and they paid the price.

In regards to its observability compared to a ballistic missile during mid-course flight it is not much different. They are both flying high. As opposed to a terrain hugging cruise missile that is virtually invisible to ground based radar in all phases of flight.

Brahmos isn't exactly a cruise missile, it has a high-low flight profile where the cruise phase is at high altitude.