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Top military officials told lawmakers in a closed door briefing on Tuesday that they may not be able to shoot down every Iranian drone being launched against US military installations and assets in retaliatory attacks, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The officials, led by the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen Dan Caine, said Iran has been deploying thousands of one-way attack drones and while they have capacity to take down the vast majority but not all of the barrage.
As a result, the officials said in a classified briefing for lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the US was focused on destroying the launch sites for the drones and conventional missiles as quickly as possible. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive details.
In retaliation against US strikes, Iran has been launching its low-cost, one-way attack Shahed drones. By flying low and slow, the drones are seen to be better able to evade conventional air defenses than ballistic missiles.
The giant missiles were running out of…
They’re often 10s of millions of dollars each.
That’s what conventional warfare is based around, making and defending against them.
So defenses can’t stop that same payload spread across 1,000 drones all launched at the same time. There’s simply too much to be shot down.
China is the only ones focusing on “mini swarms” and they’re pretty much Iran’s only big ally and already supplying them with arms.
Even if Iran doesn’t want to pay for it, I feel like China is gonna give it to them, just to see if it can really sink a US carrier.
Personally I think it can, and Iran may already have it.
That would be some shit that would permanently alter world diplomacy, our military strength is based around air craft carriers and foreign bases, and we’re closer to losing both than we’ve ever been
It’s always been an arms race since we saw what Exocet could do. Carriers have always been vulnerable to massive missile attacks (and submarines).
I don’t think China needs to test whatever they’ll have prepared. This would 1) give the US the knowledge to adapt and 2) create a huge diplomatic issue in which I don’t see many benefits, if any
Buddy, microdrones aren’t a secret, and it’s not a question if they’d sink a carrier. Doing it though would make everyone on the planet aware that American foreign power now solely relies on foreign bases. Important because most countries that host US bases, do so because if they didn’t they’d have to face carriers.
By that logic, why did Japan get nuked twice? The US just sunk a military vessel with a torpedo, something that last happened in WW2
Not even getting into all the other shit like blowing up a leader as an opening move in a war you secretly launch.
Like…
How the fuck can anyone look at the last week and think Iran responding against a military attack would be a bridge too far?
I’m talking about China supplying them with a new weapon specifically meant to have them sink that carrier…buddy
And those countries host bases because otherwise they’d ‘face’ carriers?
Why would they want a real life test of their new weapons strategy that is an open secret at no risk to their own while simultaneously giving their largest global competitor literally the largest black eye since nuclear bombs?
Gee…
I don’t know Bob.
Most countries don’t want a US base, especially in the Middle East.
They have them because the alternative is US backed regime change for a government that will allow those bases. A regime change where air craft carriers will be where the war is launched from
If the US is afraid to expose Aircraft carriers, then the threat of regime change for not allowing bases disappears. While the threat of being attacked for hosting a base changes.
That’s global politics, and will result in the closure of foreign bases.
This is a giant win for countries like NK, China, Russia, anyone who was being kept in check be ause in less than a week the equivalent of the 7th largest air force in the world could show up in the form of a single carrier group.
It’s ok not to understand this stuff before anyone explains it to you, but you might want to be nicer if you want people to keep answering who know what the answers are.
Ah yes, it’s not the endless dollars and weapons these rulers have gotten, it’s because of the undefeatable boats with planes
You sure have answers :D