[marcus_holmes]

I thought Patriot and all those Isreali firework shows were anti-missile defences?

[AlexandrB]

The Venn diagram of people who have cruise missiles and people who have anti-missile defences is a circle. I think parent was talking about various guerrilla fighters/terrorists who have neither technology but still engage in conflicts with those that do.

[epicureanideal]

Cruise missiles are expensive. In theory a million person guerrilla army that stays somewhat spread out can be too expensive to use cruise missiles against effectively. But small, cheap drones…

[baybal2]

You can't shoot down modern cruise missiles with any kind of reliability.

Qassam missiles are straight, dumb ballistic missiles with no guidance.

[ska]

I thought all of that works pretty ok against relatively slow and dumb missiles only though, no?