USA deploys Patriot and THAAD missile systems to Middle East

Over the past few days, the Pentagon has ordered the redeployment of at least two US Army MIM-104 Patriot air defense batteries and a THAAD missile defense system from Asia to the Middle East, NBC News reports. Tensions between Iran and the United States continue to rise and military actions against Iran appear increasingly likely. Reports of these movements align with a large number of military cargo flights to the Middle East that were tracked over the past week. US Air Force’s Air Mobility Command (AMC) sent dozens of C-17 aircraft and several C-5 aircraft to Isa Air Base in Bahrain and other bases near the Persian Gulf. Almost all of them departed from Osan Air Base in South Korea. US aircraft continue to arrive at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and Djibouti’s international airport near Yemen.