一些美国防务媒体对此次部署的有效性表示质疑，称“爱国者”和“萨德”系统的主要拦截目标并非是美国所声称的袭击沙特的无人机和巡航导弹等低空目标。
Some US defense media have questioned the effectiveness of the deployment, saying that the main interception targets of the Patriot and THAAD systems are not low-altitude targets such as the drones and cruise missiles that attacked Saudi Arabia as claimed by the US.