Challenges to Saudi National Security The Inability of Advanced Defense Systems to Secure Vital Facilities

The recent field developments and strategic reports revealed structural challenges facing the national security system and the air defense umbrellas in protecting vital and sensitive facilities.
Follow-ups — Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:
Despite the pumping of hundreds of billions of dollars into advanced armament deals and the acquisition of the latest expensive global systems — such as “Patriot” batteries and advanced monitoring systems — the aerial and cross-border drone strikes have proven the existence of clear gaps in the efficiency of the comprehensive coverage of the vast and far-flung geographic depth, which has re-raised sharp questions about the extent of the effectiveness of this military arsenal in deterring various threats.
Military analyses indicate that the nature of the targeted objectives, especially low-altitude drones and guided missiles that are launched from far distances, imposes immense pressures on the early warning capabilities and the radar horizon.
This predicament is exacerbated as a result of the vastness of the country’s geographic area and the multiplicity of strategic threat axes, which makes securing all vital facilities, the capital’s airports, and the oil installations with an absolute defensive umbrella a highly complex matter in the field, regardless of the size of the financial spending allocated to the armament sector.
In addition to that, observers shed light on the excessive reliance on external military and intelligence support to manage the interception operations and secure the tactical cover, which reflects a strategic dependence that exacerbates the state of security fragility and limits the independence of the military decision.
This tragic reality places the military establishment before a continuous depletion in the strategic stockpile of ammunition and expensive interceptor missiles, in light of the inability of the current systems to provide definitive guarantees to prevent the penetration of the vital depth of the state.