The Wealth Advisory

Israel and Iran exchanged missile strikes over the weekend, breaking what was left of the fragile “ceasefire” announced back in April.

Israel hit Iranian petrochemical facilities. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward Israel. Lebanon got pulled back into the fighting once again.

But the real story isn’t what got hit. It’s what didn’t.

Last week, Iran fired seven ballistic missiles at Bahrain and Kuwait. Six of them never reached their targets — mostly because they were intercepted by U.S. and Bahraini air defense systems.

CENTCOM forces also shot down three Iranian one-way attack drones aimed at civilian shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

And those are just the latest.

For more than three months now, the United States and its regional allies have been running what amounts to the largest live-fire test of integrated air defense in human history.

Per CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper’s testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee last month, U.S. and allied forces have intercepted more than 6,000 one-way attack drones and over 1,500 ballistic missiles since the Iran war began on February 28.

The United Arab Emirates alone has intercepted 537 ballistic missiles, 2,256 drones, and 26 cruise missiles using American-supplied THAAD and Patriot systems...

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