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I love how CNN's incentives to shit on Trump make them undermine their own propaganda.
I remember in 2019 when they showed actual Tehran rather than some rural village with 6000 year old buildings, and everyone was commenting "Wait, they have snow?"
Not to mention, the interceptors themselves are huge multiples of cost compared to the drones. Cheap drones and missiles versus incredibly complicated and expensive interceptors.
This has been the play for a while now. The West became so smug about their air superiority that they went all-in on million-dollar-a-shot missile defense systems. How could their missiles penetrate our INVINCIBLE IRON DOME?
Well, it turns out some dudes making a few thousand gigantic glorified bottle rockets in a garage can make that get really expensive really fast. And it also turns out that you can't intercept all of them when that happens.
God we really are Nazi Germany, who thought sloped armor was just the Soviets compensating for having "Judeo-Bolshevik steel instead of strong, Aryan steel."
Lo and behold, Soviet tanks turning German tanks into magicians who disappear into thin air while German shells bounced off at point-blank ranges. Cost of a T-34? Some ~$13,000ish in materials and labor in 1941. Cost of a Tiger in 1941? Over $200,000 because they were basically using artisinal screws.
How long until some aggrieved military family members start taking these guys out for their flagrant false bravado, ineptitude and capriciousness about this whole thing?
Depends on when the youtubers they watch encourage them to. So probably never
Be the Shahed attack drones you wish to see in the world.
at cost effect they can shoot down one in twenty if it's our cheapest interceptor and their most expensive drone
Would it not be possible to create a swarm of relatively tiny flying devices? I mean obviously it isn't possible otherwise someone more capable than me would have already done so, but they don't need to be able to cause much damage at all, just function as a sort of flying screen of mosquitos.