Saudi Air Defenses Exposed: Why Patriot Systems Keep Failing Against Houthis

🛡️ RIYADH — The world's most expensive air defense can't stop missiles Iran helped design. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Saudi Patriot batteries were built for state-on-state ballistic salvos, not saturating swarm-plus-ballistic combinations. IRGC engineers the Houthi attack profile to exploit exactly that gap. Depleted interceptor stocks and no US resupply yet mean each Dhahran or airport strike isn't a failure of hardware — it's attrition working as Tehran planned.