Are numerous production centers spread across vast areas or are they more geographically concentrated?
How vulnerable are they to intermediate-range missile attack? Are Patriot missile batteries currently in place to protect them?
Are numerous production centers spread across vast areas or are they more geographically concentrated?
How vulnerable are they to intermediate-range missile attack? Are Patriot missile batteries currently in place to protect them?
I have no idea about defenses, but who would be shooting missiles at Saudi Arabia? It would have to be a nation like Iran or Iraq and if they did, there would be a whole lot of explaining to do by them I would think.
I don’t think anyone is handing a terrorist a ballistic missile.
My SWAG: Not very. Sure, you could do some damage, but remember Saddam? He had months for his men to place individual demolition charges, well-by-well, facility-by-facility, and even then, despite all the “expert” predictions of a recovery lasting years, in less than one year, all the fires were out, and production resumed very shortly thereafter. Short of nuking the Saudi fields, I doubt a missile attack could do half as much damage, even with more missiles than are available in all the inventory of all the nations in the Mid-East.