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womanofthehills

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8. That article says $4 million dollar missile - Patriot

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Mar 4, 2026, 06:08 PM

13 hrs ago

Interceptor. We only make 600 a yr.

The THAAD interceptor missiles are $15 million for one missile and we only made 7-8 a month. Plus to make money, we sold most of our stock to Saudi Arabia.

We basically left our bases with few interceptors.

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