According to the intelligence released by the US military department, US fighter jets carried out air strikes on Iraq, Syria, and Jordan, but in the end only intercepted more than 100 planes, and in terms of the success rate of interception, it was not even 30%.
The real combat power of the U.S. military was exposed
In this interception, the US military dispatched the most advanced Standard 3 anti-aircraft missile, but not only did it fail to intercept a single hypersonic missile, but even Iran's medium-range missiles were difficult to effectively intercept. The Standard-3 is capable of intercepting medium- and long-range ballistic missiles in the mid-flight segment outside the Earth's atmosphere, and even intercontinental ballistic missiles, which release advanced "anti-personnel interceptors" in the final stages of interception, and then destroy the target by means of a physical impact. is one of the most advanced air defense systems in the United States.
The U.S. military launched a total of seven Standard 3 anti-missile interceptor missiles and successfully destroyed four Iranian missiles and ballistic missiles, excluding medium-range missiles and anti-hypersonic missiles, all of which are relatively simple cruise missiles. According to publicly available records of defense spending, the cost of each Standard 3 anti-missile interceptor missile is about $20 million, and the missile expenditure for this operation alone reached $140 million, while the cost of Iranian missiles is significantly lower, estimated at several million dollars each.
In other words, if you fight the US military, you can continuously drop more than 300 targets on the US Air Force in a very short period of time, and then carry out effective attacks on US military bases, radars, aircraft carriers, and other combat units. If hypersonic missiles are dropped on the US military, then the US military's bases, radars, aircraft carriers and other combat units will be destroyed.
It can be said that the US military appeared overnight, and after the incident, the United States is even more worried about dragging itself into the quagmire of the Middle East, and constantly asks Israel not to counterattack again, which is what the US military would have stopped like this 20 years ago.
Iraq pierced the US air defense system
The exposure of the strength of the US military means that it is difficult to effectively deter the armed forces in the Middle East.
Iraqi militias fired four rockets at a U.S. military base in the Omar oil field in Deir ez-Zor governorate in eastern Syria. The U.S. was hit by drones near a military base in northern Hasakah province in northeastern Syria, followed by multiple rockets fired at the base, and explosions were heard near the base. A drone launched by Iraqi militia launched an attack on a US military base located in the "Koniko" gas field in Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria.
At the end of January this year, because Iraq's "Allah Brigade" killed three American troops in Jordan when it attacked the US military, so in early February this year, the US military carried out large-scale retaliation against Iraqi militias, especially the "Allah Brigade". Since then, Iraqi militias have not attacked U.S. forces again in the past two months. And now, the Iraqi armed forces have attacked the US military base again, which also shows that the strength of the US military in the Middle East is also weakening.
It can be seen that the Iraqi armed forces are also copying Iran's tactics, first using drones to consume US anti-aircraft missiles, and then using rockets to carry out firepower strikes on US military bases. And this trick really worked, the Iraqi armed pierced the air defense system, and it is not yet known the casualties of the American troops.
In fact, since the beginning of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the US military escort in the Red Sea, its combat effectiveness is no longer able to deter the Middle East, since Iran Soleimani was assassinated by the United States, Iran and the organizations it supports have launched a total of more than 500 air strikes, and since the beginning of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, more than 160 attacks have been launched on the US military, and for the first time, US soldiers have been killed, or drones pierced the air defense system.
This time, the poor performance of the US military in intercepting Iranian missiles, coupled with the outstanding results of armed attacks in Iraq, we can expect that the US military in the Middle East may encounter more frequent attacks.
The situation in the Middle East is deteriorating for the US military
And this can be said to be a huge consumption of the US military, you know, the Middle East armed forces to dispatch 100 drones, the US military will dispatch 100 times of air defense missiles, and the cost of the US military's air defense missiles is at least about 2 million, which means that 200 million US dollars will be gone, and the cost of the Middle East armed forces may only be 20,000 US dollars.
The United States has about 46,000 troops in the Middle East, including troops in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and other countries, as well as illegal troops in Syria. The U.S. military has about 2,500 troops in Iraq and about 900 troops illegally in Syria. U.S. military installations in the Middle East include air bases, naval installations, outposts, and radar facilities. The largest base of the US military in the Middle East is the Al Udeid airbase in Qatar.
In order to guard against China, the United States has deployed 50 to 60 percent of its naval and air force combat forces to East Asia all year round, and 150,000 US Navy soldiers are in the western Pacific, which can be said to have formed a huge network to blockade China. The most peaceful place was dragged 6 percent of the main force, and the most turbulent place was the lack of people to maintain it.
The problem is obvious, the US military bases in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan in the Middle East are bombed by drones almost every day, but the United States cannot upgrade the level of war, the existing military resources are too small, and on the premise of not greatly increasing military spending and greatly expanding personnel, the Middle East can only be consumed by the enemy in this way, and the empire is now in a dilemma.
The United States is cocooning itself
In the final analysis, the source of all this is the United States, the foundation of the United States' global hegemony is oil, so the United States needs to invest great resources to maintain the situation in the Middle East, the Americans need contradictions and wars, they need to divide Arabs and Muslims, they need an American to run from the other side of the earth to the Middle East to set up guns and artillery military existence, and the United States is planting nails in the Middle East for this - Israel, so to speak, is constantly stirring up trouble in the Middle East, because of the operation of the Israeli Jewish lobby in the United States, the United States has given Israel economic aid, which accounts for 2% of Israel's GDP, and since the Kissinger era, the United States has signed a commitment to Israel to guarantee the supply of oil to Israel in the event of a crisis.
With the irreconcilable contradictions between the Arab world and Israel, although the US military has successfully defended Israel, it has also led to various armed forces and terrorist forces taking root in the Middle East.
However, in the case of insufficient US military strength, it can be said that these armed forces have begun to attack the United States, especially the US military in Syria uninvited and in Iraq, which has been opposed by the governments and people of the host countries. The fierce outbreak of a new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the obvious partiality of the United States towards Israel have greatly stimulated anti-American sentiment in the Middle East. It can be said that the strikes of these armed forces on US military bases are constantly consuming the military strength of the US military, and once the United States finds it difficult to continue in the Middle East and completely loses its control over the Middle East, then it will be the beginning of the collapse of US hegemony.
And the successive attacks on the US military have also sent a signal that the balance of strength of all parties in the Taiwan Strait has changed greatly. As a matter of fact, Tsai Dong-chieh, a distinguished professor at Taiwan's Chung Hsing University, directly and frankly said at the forum on the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, the cross-strait situation, and Sino-US relations: Not only is the gap in strength between the two sides of the strait getting wider and wider, but the balance of strength between China and the United States has also undergone tremendous changes. The United States cannot afford to intervene in the Taiwan Strait alone, so when it decides to intervene, it will certainly pull its allies together.
Even when the Center for Strategic and National Studies (CSIS), a think tank in Washington, D.C., discussed the issue of ammunition consumption when the United States intervened in the Taiwan Strait by force, it came to a conclusion that the US military's current ammunition supply is very problematic, and it simply does not have the ability to fight a protracted war with China, and the US military's ammunition reserves will soon run out and fall into a situation where there are no ammunition to fight. And the U.S. military will also struggle to cope with the missile superiority of the Chinese PLA.