Iran’s much improved missile systems pose a real threat to the US

Tehran’s increasingly accurate and lethal attacks are showing up failures in American air defences in the Gulf As the crisis in the Middle East escalates, Iran has been bombing US bases and critical infrastructure in the Gulf with increasing accuracy, helped by Chinese satellite imagery and tactics learned from Russia in Ukraine. Three American soldiers were killed last Friday in an attack on the Muwaffaq Salti airbase in Jordan, which was being protected by a US Thaad air defence system.…