PAC-3 is anti-ballistic. Ballistic missiles are the rarest (excluding nukes). The main focus right now should be on protection against drones and usvs.
Are you Pakistani or something?
PAC-3 have ability to shoot down ballistic missiles they are latest version of interceptors. PAC2 are still in use and don't have capability of taking down balistic missiles. You need PAC-3s to counter Iran. The issue is that Iran has capability to produce ballistic missiles en masse. Secondly in order to take down SINGLE ballistic missile you need to shot TWO PAC-3 missiles at minimum. In current Iran-US conflict US was shooting upwards of 8 PAC3 missiless to take down single ballistic missile from Iran and even that does not guarantee you taking down ballistic missile. Just to iterate again. Current production rate is around 600 pac3s per year. And that's with exports which are all halted currently. By 2030 production rate will be at around 2000.
There isn't right now any good option to counter cheap drones. All projectile based systems have too short range and missiles are to expensive to shot cheap drones and you run out of them. Moreover those drones flight pattern is low to the ground so it's not like you can even detect them well at range.
Ukraine does it by creating several layers of defense where drones are tracked and each lines tries to take them down with short range weapons. But that's in theatre of war over land stretching literally nearly a 1000km. You don't have that in fight with Iran and US nave is too small to create such layered defense on the sea.
Sorry, but I find it highly implausible that the Iranians will find it easier to rebuild all the shit that got destroyed than the US to manufacture more ordnance to destroy said shit.
And no. Building underground is slow and highly resource intensive, way more so than surface construction and still creates natural choke-points because without surface access what use is an underground base ?
Stop talking like the IRGC are supermen! Its laughable.
Iran right now operates whole missile
CITIES underground. US own reports say that bombed launch shafts from which they fire ballistic missiles are firing them again withing
days of being bombed. Moreover they were preparing for US attack for
DECADES. From assessments before this war even started Iran main hubs of command are located below ground so much that even nuclear strikes won't take them out, we know that because they hired russian engineers decades ago who build same stuff for russian command structure under moscow metro. There are only few nations in the world that have such bunkers, US, france, russia, uk, maybe India, probably now pakistan and for sure China. Iran is also one of them.
IRGC aren't supermen. They are actually far from that.
But they invested heavily into defense of Iran and they were doing that over decades. Moreover they are 100mil nation with gold goose in form of oil with theocratic government that was predicting that US WILL attack them in future. And guess what they did, so they are now directly reaping benefits of preparing for a war with US they prepared for decades.
It's not that Iran is smart. It's US heads that are stupid.
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It's like case of Switzerland. They didn't get attacked because they said they are neutral. They didn't get attacked for 100s of years because they invested HEAVILY into defense of their nation for as long as they are nation. Whole chains of bunkers, latest gear, incredible topography for defense, whole huge stockpiles, underground logistic networks ensuring that whoever attacks Switzerland will have to go through absolute hell to conquer it. So no one fucking bothered because it doesn't make fucking sense to attack it. It's stupid^2 to attack it.
Now imagine instead of small Switzerland you have 100milion people Iran, instead of shit topography for invasion you have absolute hell topography for invasion where you can hide anything you want in mountains, valleys of death where any invasion force would be surrounded on all sides for 100s of kms to reach interior absolutely shelled the fuck out by artillery hidden in mountains surrounding you. In a country size of 1/4 of US.
As for underground construction. Yes it is expensive but you assume civilian costs under no conflict. During conflict prices are slashed down considerably as people often work for just food and maybe something extra. And again we are talking here about country that did it for DECADES.
They are simply benefiting from being massive country that practiced spending on defense for decades.
Just to further iterate. US and arab states are fighting war in Yemen and Lebanon for YEARS. Hesbollah has been using same tactic as Iran aka underground and lobbing drones/missiles and despite YEARS of bombing campaigns Hesbollah is still there.
And that's US+Israel+multiple arab nations bombing the living fuck out of Hesbollah in those regions and they are still fine operating there.
And Hesbollah compared to Iran have like no money, no-know how, simple tools and whatever they can get from Iran from time to time.
that's why every expert was saying attacking Iran was stupid. Because it is Stupid.
"NATO. Is. A. Defensive. Alliance."
This must be the new talking point for people who don't really know what they're talking about to mindlessly parrot I guess. NATO can act whenever it chooses to act, as it has demonstrated repeatedly previously. No NATO member needs to be attacked for it to take action.
NATO members can act on their own. They can even form coalition and attack someone. But they aren't then using NATO then. Moreover if say US get attacked right now on American soil by Iran, say they will send ballistic missiles and attack main cities. US has no right to use Article5 according to NATO rules because when they attacked Iran they were working outside of NATO.
Happening watch!
