Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance

The Missile Defense of Israel Under Attack “We're here to discuss what happened last Tuesday and the relevance of that to the world not only to Israel but to the world because that looks like the way real combat is happening and it's happening in a way of overmatch. It's not happening that we don't have the right capabilities, we have the right capabilities, we just don't have the capacity, and we are using capacity that we're unable to produce as quickly as possible. This is where Israel leads the world at on this because they are judicious they understand that and they're they take more risk than any other nation in the world to let missiles go that aren't targeted specifically on infrastructures or on people and that was developed with the Iron Dome system so they could be judicious with that aspect of it. We're not that judicious, as we look at this thing that happened on Tuesday you have the Israeli defenses in the back but in front of that is CENTCOM and its allies that Israel is part of that that do the capabilities of sensing warning tracking and intercepting prior to them getting to Israel. We're using some of our best stuff such as the SM-3 Block 1B off our ships to specifically hit systems, but this is the wrong end of the cost curve. That is a you know 10:1 cost ratio that we can't afford we're doing this, this was only a couple hours of attack and the amount of money spent on one side versus the other is completely lopsided and you've got our government that's stopped the development and deployment or production of the SM-3 Block 1B that they're using so it is a really interesting place that from our perspective this is not being addressed correctly. We are not being addressed correctly, this threat the capacity limitations that we put on Israel put on ourselves because of this.” - Mr. Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder of MDAA Click Here To Read More: https://lnkd.in/eDWFu_VS

MDAA Alert: IAMD and Drones: The Challenge Has Made It To The Homeland Russia has produced over 1.3 million drones this past year on 24-hour shifts in collaboration with Iran, China and North Korea to win a combined cost curve war of attrition against Western democracies. The Axis of Resistance produced drones are doing irreparable damage to civilian infrastructures, military high value targets and lives by overmatch and exponentially forcing an extreme cost of intercept with western missile defense systems to protect high value targets in this modern warfare of attrition. Ukraine especially and Israel to a lesser extent, whom both are constantly under drone and missile attack also have policy restrictions placed on them to not allow them to attack the origins of the drone and missile launch points and even production facilities that are deep in Russia and in Iran. This situation leads to continuous unbalanced conflict that extends in years and favors the attacking nation in attrition. This exposes vulnerabilities in the Western integrated air and missile defense architecture and has forced adaptive quick solutions to fill those vulnerabilities. The United States has been in combat with defending US and Allied Forward Operating bases in the Middle East for the past two decades from small rockets and drone attacks to have come up with ingenious solutions. The United States created the first Joint Counter Unmanned System Office established by Lt Gen Sean Gainey and put forward top line capabilities to detect and defeat drone and rockets crossing the fence line of operating bases in the Middle East. These systems remain expensive and exquisite, not attritable nor distributable in masses. As noted by the Wall Street Journal yesterday, swarms of drones have been flying over Langley AFB. The United States Homeland does not have the enough capacity or enough capabilities to defend its own bases in the United States let alone civilian critical power infrastructures in the United States. This remains a glaring gap that is widening as the authorities to take down and detect these incoming drones are not given to the Commanders of these bases and the civilian agencies that oversee the critical civilian infrastructures. Our nation must invest in cost effective cheap, distributable and atrritable drone defenses to warn, track, detect, negate with the right authorities and directly apply lessons learned from Ukraine and Israel on defending against drones coming across our borders and deep within our homeland. The threat is real and will continue to grow exponentially to the United States. It must be addressed urgently. Click Here to Read More: https://lnkd.in/gNGSeg56

Kyiv's air defense intercepts Russian Kinzhal strike Missile debris fell in Ukraine's capital following explosions and a nationwide air raid alert on the morning of Oct. 7, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. https://ow.ly/Rrcs50TJX7O

Please join us tomorrow, Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 11:30am EDT for a virtual discussion: The Missile Defense of Israel Under Attack Speakers: Mr. Tal Inbar, Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance Research Fellow and Board Advisor Brigadier General (Ret.) Shachar Shohat, Former Commander, Israel Air Defense Forces Major General (Ret.) Charles Corcoran, MDAA Board of Directors Member Mr. JD Gainey, MDAA Board of Directors Member Mr. Riki Ellison, Chairman and Founder, Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance The event will take place tomorrow on Thursday, October 10, 2024, from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (EDT) on MDAA’s YouTube channel. Questions that may be asked during the live event, can be submitted through the RSVP form, or emailed to info@missiledefenseadvocacy.org Please Click Here to RSVP: https://lnkd.in/evbdJ75j

Ukrainian air defenses down 18 Russian drones Ukraine’s military said Tuesday it shot down 18 of 19 drones that Russia used in overnight attacks targeting central and western Ukraine. Ukrainian air defense shot down the drones over the Dnipropetrovsk... https://ow.ly/1Nc250THl1T

Israel Warns Its Retaliation Against Iran Will Be ‘Significant’ Israel’s defense minister is set to travel to Washington as the country vowed what one leader called a “significant” response to an Iranian missile attack a week ago and stepped up... https://ow.ly/PPcy50THkVY

Ukraine Downs Two Kinzhal Missiles Over Kyiv, Third Hits Key Airfield in Khmelnytsky Region Read more: https://ow.ly/M9mK50TG3v0

Russia strikes Ukraine with drones and missiles Read more: https://ow.ly/jQfR50TG2UM

Netherlands delivers F-16s to Ukraine, provides $440M for drones Read More: https://ow.ly/mw5o50TG2PY

$113M missile test facility contract on Guam Read more: https://ow.ly/BolN50TG2Kt