We've got a single digit number of these batteries operational, the *total* number of interceptors delivered in the system's life is like 800, and it's such an important system in the Pacific that China is in large part building out new nukes to swamp batteries

Laughably unsustainable when Iran can pump out solid fuel ballistic missiles like they're candy, or open up their older, more expensive and less reliable scud-based liquid stocks and clear out more space to shelter newer missiles while eating up interceptors