breakfastmtnUS may not have capacity to take down full barrage of Iranian drones, officials warn
panda_abyssI don’t know, Hegseth just came out and said they definitely do today. It was probably totally unrelated to this.
Would the Trump administration lie?
Would the Trump administration lie?
Don’t be silly. Just because the lying liar that does nothing but lie and hire liars to lie for him as well, does so every day and all day, doesn’t mean they would lie!
I for one would be shocked, shocked I say, if they were lying!
Well… Not that shocked… It’s almost guaranteed to be a lie.
It’s crazy to me that the US doesn’t have “fuck you” hoards of weapons and tech, ready to go at any time.
Hollywood did a number on me.
It’s asymmetric. The weapons you need to take out a swarm of drones are orders of magnitude more expensive (and complicated) than the drones.
So, any horde of such weapons cannot be replenished as quickly as the drones can.
The US hasn’t really invested in anti-drone weapons, despite the obvious risk they pose as demonstrated in Ukraine.
So instead they’re trying to blow up a $200 drone with a multi-million dollar missile, and they don’t even have a 100% hit rate. Things like RF jammers, real big nets, and big foam darts would be just as effective if not more so as they could take up multiple target simultaneously, and considerably cheaper and reusable. But nope.
Iranian launch sites are mostly mobile. They fire those UAVs from the back of a truck and they’re gone.
If they had any sense they would’ve been cooperating with Ukraine for the last year instead of being dicks. Arm them and have a full exchange of knowledge like their ability to knock down hundreds of drones on a DAILY basis. Drones made by Iran.
Instead Trump still has his vendetta against them (Zelenskyy specifically) for not inventing Hunter Biden evidence. And Trump holds a grudge like no other.