Qatar, with its $19bn defence stockpile of air defence systems, fighter jets, drones, and missile batteries, watched helplessly as its sovereignty was bypassed with press of a button
Israel’s targeting of the Hamas leadership in Doha, while the most expensive and sophisticated arsenal in the Muslim world sat idle, was more than just a tactical or technological episode. It was a blunt illustration of imperial realpolitik.
Qatar, with its $19 billion defence stockpile of air defence systems, fighter jets, drones, and missile batteries, watched helplessly as its sovereignty was bypassed with the press of a button. The entire defence grid — comprising 11 Patriot PAC-3 batteries from the US, 40 NASAMS-2 launchers co-produced by Norway and the US, 18 Rapier systems from the UK, nine Roland units from France and Germany, and even preparations for a THAAD system due in 2025 — was reduced to decorative scrap. None of it functioned — not the interceptors, not the radars, not the jets.
From : Geo News