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🇮🇷 Iran keeps throwing cheap Shahed-style drones at targets across the region. The idea is simple: overwhelm defenses with something that costs maybe $20k–$50k to build. But here’s the catch. You don’t always need a fancy interceptor missile to stop them. C-RAM (Counter Rocket, Artillery, Mortar) systems can just...

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🚨🇺🇸🇺🇦 Here’s why the U.S. suddenly wants Ukrainian interceptor drones Iran launches cheap Shahed drones that cost tens of thousands. The U.S. solution so far is to fire $4 million Patriot missiles at them. Ukraine took one look at that math and built the Sting interceptor drone. Cost: $2,000. Speed: 300 km/h. Mission: slam into the incoming drone and knock it out. Ukrainians figured out how to stop drones without burning through the GDP of a small country every week. Source: CBS
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🚨🇺🇸🇺🇦 Here’s why the U.S. suddenly wants Ukrainian interceptor drones Iran launches cheap Shahed drones that cost tens of thousands. The U.S. solution so far is to fire $4 million Patriot missiles at them. Ukraine took one look at that math and built the Sting interceptor drone. Cost: $2,000. Speed: 300 km/h. Mission: slam into the incoming drone and knock it out. Ukrainians figured out how to stop drones without burning through the GDP of a small country every week. Source: CBS

Mario Nawfal

307,205 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

🚨America Just Changed the Economics of War… With Light For years Iran built a strategy around one brutal equation. Launch thousands of cheap drones. Force the defender to burn through million-dollar interceptors. Bleed the defense dry. It was simple math. A Shahed drone costs roughly $30,000. Stopping it with traditional missile defenses can cost hundreds of thousands… sometimes over a million dollars per intercept. Repeat that attack a thousand times and suddenly the defender is spending billions just to stay alive. Iran understood this. They designed an entire doctrine around it. Flood the sky with cheap weapons. Overwhelm air defenses. Make defense more expensive than offense. But something just changed. The United States Navy has now deployed HELIOS, a directed-energy weapon mounted on an American destroyer operating near Iran. HELIOS is not a missile. It is a laser. And it runs on something every warship already produces… Electricity. No missile to reload. No magazine to empty. No resupply ship needed. As long as the ship’s generators are producing power, the weapon keeps firing. That means the cost of stopping a drone is no longer measured in missiles. It is measured in electricity. In practical terms… Destroying a $30,000 drone can now cost less than the power bill of a large apartment building. That single change breaks the entire economic foundation of drone saturation warfare. For years Iran invested in the strategy that made Shahed drones valuable. Cheap. Numerous. Disposable. But if directed-energy weapons like HELIOS can burn drones out of the sky at near-zero cost… The math flips. Suddenly the attacker is spending money… while the defender spends almost nothing. CENTCOM has already released footage showing HELIOS mounted on a U.S. Navy destroyer in waters near Iran. Earlier tests confirmed the system successfully destroyed multiple drones during live trials. Now the system is deployed where hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles have been passing through the same airspace. This is not a laboratory experiment anymore. This is a real battlefield. And the world is about to find out whether the future of missile defense is not another interceptor… But a beam of light. Because when America decides to change the physics of war… It usually succeeds. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove
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🚨America Just Changed the Economics of War… With Light For years Iran built a strategy around one brutal equation. Launch thousands of cheap drones. Force the defender to burn through million-dollar interceptors. Bleed the defense dry. It was simple math. A Shahed drone costs roughly $30,000. Stopping it with traditional missile defenses can cost hundreds of thousands… sometimes over a million dollars per intercept. Repeat that attack a thousand times and suddenly the defender is spending billions just to stay alive. Iran understood this. They designed an entire doctrine around it. Flood the sky with cheap weapons. Overwhelm air defenses. Make defense more expensive than offense. But something just changed. The United States Navy has now deployed HELIOS, a directed-energy weapon mounted on an American destroyer operating near Iran. HELIOS is not a missile. It is a laser. And it runs on something every warship already produces… Electricity. No missile to reload. No magazine to empty. No resupply ship needed. As long as the ship’s generators are producing power, the weapon keeps firing. That means the cost of stopping a drone is no longer measured in missiles. It is measured in electricity. In practical terms… Destroying a $30,000 drone can now cost less than the power bill of a large apartment building. That single change breaks the entire economic foundation of drone saturation warfare. For years Iran invested in the strategy that made Shahed drones valuable. Cheap. Numerous. Disposable. But if directed-energy weapons like HELIOS can burn drones out of the sky at near-zero cost… The math flips. Suddenly the attacker is spending money… while the defender spends almost nothing. CENTCOM has already released footage showing HELIOS mounted on a U.S. Navy destroyer in waters near Iran. Earlier tests confirmed the system successfully destroyed multiple drones during live trials. Now the system is deployed where hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles have been passing through the same airspace. This is not a laboratory experiment anymore. This is a real battlefield. And the world is about to find out whether the future of missile defense is not another interceptor… But a beam of light. Because when America decides to change the physics of war… It usually succeeds. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

A Gene Robinson

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Iran is increasingly relying on drones to strike targets across the Middle East, using unmanned systems that can be produced far more quickly and at a fraction of the cost of traditional missiles, CBS News' Holly Williams reports. One of the main drones being used is the Shahed drone, which costs an estimated $20,000 to $50,000 per unit, compared with missiles that can cost millions of dollars. The widespread use of drones is reshaping modern warfare, a trend already seen on the battlefield in Ukraine and now playing out across the Middle East.
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Iran is increasingly relying on drones to strike targets across the Middle East, using unmanned systems that can be produced far more quickly and at a fraction of the cost of traditional missiles, CBS News' Holly Williams reports. One of the main drones being used is the Shahed drone, which costs an estimated $20,000 to $50,000 per unit, compared with missiles that can cost millions of dollars. The widespread use of drones is reshaping modern warfare, a trend already seen on the battlefield in Ukraine and now playing out across the Middle East.

CBS News

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🇨🇳 China’s Type 1130 is built for one job: shred anything that gets too close to its warships. It’s an 11-barrel, 30mm rotary cannon that can fire up to 11,000 rounds per minute, making it one of the fastest point-defense systems on the planet. China mounts it on Type 055 destroyers and aircraft carriers to stop incoming missiles and drones before they reach the ship. At that speed, defense becomes a wall of metal. Source: VEXR Media (Youtube) / Writer: Sol
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🇨🇳 China’s Type 1130 is built for one job: shred anything that gets too close to its warships. It’s an 11-barrel, 30mm rotary cannon that can fire up to 11,000 rounds per minute, making it one of the fastest point-defense systems on the planet. China mounts it on Type 055 destroyers and aircraft carriers to stop incoming missiles and drones before they reach the ship. At that speed, defense becomes a wall of metal. Source: VEXR Media (Youtube) / Writer: Sol

Mario Nawfal

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⚡🇺🇸 The Gun That Stops Missiles At The Last Second The Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) is one of the final layers of defense protecting aircraft carriers and other warships from incoming anti-ship missiles, drones and other aerial threats. Its radar tracks incoming targets and guides a 20mm Gatling gun capable of firing around 4,500 rounds per minute, creating a dense wall of fire to destroy threats before they reach the ship. The Phalanx originally used depleted uranium rounds, but modern systems have transitioned to tungsten alloy ammunition.
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⚡🇺🇸 The Gun That Stops Missiles At The Last Second The Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) is one of the final layers of defense protecting aircraft carriers and other warships from incoming anti-ship missiles, drones and other aerial threats. Its radar tracks incoming targets and guides a 20mm Gatling gun capable of firing around 4,500 rounds per minute, creating a dense wall of fire to destroy threats before they reach the ship. The Phalanx originally used depleted uranium rounds, but modern systems have transitioned to tungsten alloy ammunition.

Defense Intelligence

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“They’re using Shahed drones that cost $20,000 to $35,000 to build, and we shoot them down with a Patriot missile system that costs $4 million for one missile. It’s a 200 to 1 ratio. We estimate we spent $4 billion in the first week of the Iran war, $4 billion of munitions that just go bang and they’re done. The benefit to the American living in America is zero to negative. Who benefited? Israel benefited.” Michael T. Lester
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“They’re using Shahed drones that cost $20,000 to $35,000 to build, and we shoot them down with a Patriot missile system that costs $4 million for one missile. It’s a 200 to 1 ratio. We estimate we spent $4 billion in the first week of the Iran war, $4 billion of munitions that just go bang and they’re done. The benefit to the American living in America is zero to negative. Who benefited? Israel benefited.” Michael T. Lester

Shawn Ryan

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Iran may attack U.S. forces with $400 cost interceptor drones — like rus-sian «Molniya». Its significantly cheaper than the Shahed drone and has a range of up to 60 km, when the width of the Strait of Hormuz is 40–50 km. While the missiles for Patriot systems — likely to be often used by the U.S. to intercept these threats — cost about $4M. How do you like that cost ratio?😉 In this video, we’ll discuss how 7 Corps experience can help in countering Iran. And about the capability to mass-produce low-cost interceptor drones (with Генерал Черешня 🍒). Watch the video, like and share this post!👍
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Iran may attack U.S. forces with $400 cost interceptor drones — like rus-sian «Molniya». Its significantly cheaper than the Shahed drone and has a range of up to 60 km, when the width of the Strait of Hormuz is 40–50 km. While the missiles for Patriot systems — likely to be often used by the U.S. to intercept these threats — cost about $4M. How do you like that cost ratio?😉 In this video, we’ll discuss how 7 Corps experience can help in countering Iran. And about the capability to mass-produce low-cost interceptor drones (with Генерал Черешня 🍒). Watch the video, like and share this post!👍

7th Corps of AAF

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Iran war may come down to simple math... and the math is ugly Patriots cost $5M each. THAADs cost $12M. The U.S. makes 41 Patriots and 8 THAADs per month. Iran replaces a missile for $1-2M and a drone for $50K. It can produce hundreds of missiles and up to 6,000 drones monthly. The Pentagon had just 25% of the Patriot stockpile it needed before this war started. A few more weeks and over a third of what's left could be gone. That's why the coalition is frantically hunting launchers and factories. If they can't destroy production before the interceptors run dry, the math flips. Source: SearchParty on YT
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Iran war may come down to simple math... and the math is ugly Patriots cost $5M each. THAADs cost $12M. The U.S. makes 41 Patriots and 8 THAADs per month. Iran replaces a missile for $1-2M and a drone for $50K. It can produce hundreds of missiles and up to 6,000 drones monthly. The Pentagon had just 25% of the Patriot stockpile it needed before this war started. A few more weeks and over a third of what's left could be gone. That's why the coalition is frantically hunting launchers and factories. If they can't destroy production before the interceptors run dry, the math flips. Source: SearchParty on YT

Mario Nawfal

191,836 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

DRONE SWARMS: CHEAP, SNEAKY, AND MAKING MISSILES LOOK STUPID For decades, military power was a flex; stealth jets, billion-dollar programs, advanced missile systems. The assumption was simple: the more expensive your toys, the safer you were. Enter the $10,000 Shahed drone, and suddenly that logic looks like a bad investment pitch. Because the real problem with drone swarms isn’t just that they’re cheap. It’s that they’re hard to see, annoyingly persistent, and perfectly happy to show up in numbers that make most defense systems sweat. This is the part nobody likes to admit: modern air defense is built for impressive threats, not annoying ones. A fighter jet? Big, expensive, predictable behavior, worth the missile. A swarm of low-flying, semi-autonomous drones stitched together with off-the-shelf parts? That's nightmare fuel. You can absolutely shoot them down… if you enjoy the idea of firing a six-figure interceptor at something that costs less than a used car. Do that a few dozen times and congratulations, you’ve successfully defended your airspace straight into a budget crisis. This is what the new battlefield looks like: not a contest of who has the best technology, but who can afford to keep pressing “fire” the longest. But cost is only half the problem. Detection is where things get ugly. These drones fly low, slow, and just quietly enough to blend into the background noise of reality. Radar doesn’t love them. Infrared barely notices them. By the time you’re sure they’re there, they’re already uncomfortably close to something you’d prefer not to explode. So now you’re playing hide-and-seek with something designed to be found too late. Naturally, the solution isn’t one system. It’s all of them. Sensors layered on sensors. Jammers trying to cut signals that may not even matter anymore. Guns sweeping the sky like it’s 1943 again. Smart ammunition that explodes near targets because hitting them directly is apparently too much to ask. And yes, lasers… because nothing says “we’re adapting” like turning science fiction into a workaround. The pitch sounds great: pennies per shot, instant engagement, no reloads. The reality? Still weather-dependent, still power-hungry, and still not a magic wand when the sky looks like a mechanical beehive. Meanwhile, the offense is getting smarter. AI is turning swarms into coordinated systems that don’t just fly, they think, adjust, reroute, and overwhelm. Lose a few drones? Fine. The rest adapt. The mission continues. Nobody sends condolence letters to a pile of circuit boards. We’ve spent decades perfecting exquisite, high-cost ways to destroy things… only to discover that the future belongs to whoever can afford to lose the most stuff the fastest. Source: Military Merchandise YT
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DRONE SWARMS: CHEAP, SNEAKY, AND MAKING MISSILES LOOK STUPID For decades, military power was a flex; stealth jets, billion-dollar programs, advanced missile systems. The assumption was simple: the more expensive your toys, the safer you were. Enter the $10,000 Shahed drone, and suddenly that logic looks like a bad investment pitch. Because the real problem with drone swarms isn’t just that they’re cheap. It’s that they’re hard to see, annoyingly persistent, and perfectly happy to show up in numbers that make most defense systems sweat. This is the part nobody likes to admit: modern air defense is built for impressive threats, not annoying ones. A fighter jet? Big, expensive, predictable behavior, worth the missile. A swarm of low-flying, semi-autonomous drones stitched together with off-the-shelf parts? That's nightmare fuel. You can absolutely shoot them down… if you enjoy the idea of firing a six-figure interceptor at something that costs less than a used car. Do that a few dozen times and congratulations, you’ve successfully defended your airspace straight into a budget crisis. This is what the new battlefield looks like: not a contest of who has the best technology, but who can afford to keep pressing “fire” the longest. But cost is only half the problem. Detection is where things get ugly. These drones fly low, slow, and just quietly enough to blend into the background noise of reality. Radar doesn’t love them. Infrared barely notices them. By the time you’re sure they’re there, they’re already uncomfortably close to something you’d prefer not to explode. So now you’re playing hide-and-seek with something designed to be found too late. Naturally, the solution isn’t one system. It’s all of them. Sensors layered on sensors. Jammers trying to cut signals that may not even matter anymore. Guns sweeping the sky like it’s 1943 again. Smart ammunition that explodes near targets because hitting them directly is apparently too much to ask. And yes, lasers… because nothing says “we’re adapting” like turning science fiction into a workaround. The pitch sounds great: pennies per shot, instant engagement, no reloads. The reality? Still weather-dependent, still power-hungry, and still not a magic wand when the sky looks like a mechanical beehive. Meanwhile, the offense is getting smarter. AI is turning swarms into coordinated systems that don’t just fly, they think, adjust, reroute, and overwhelm. Lose a few drones? Fine. The rest adapt. The mission continues. Nobody sends condolence letters to a pile of circuit boards. We’ve spent decades perfecting exquisite, high-cost ways to destroy things… only to discover that the future belongs to whoever can afford to lose the most stuff the fastest. Source: Military Merchandise YT

Mario Nawfal

51,338 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran claims it fired a Qader cruise missile at a U.S. carrier group. The U.S. hasn’t confirmed it. Here’s what matters. The Qader is built to hit ships. It launches from land, flies just meters above the sea, and locks onto moving targets in the final seconds. Range: 120–300 km. Warhead: 200 kg high explosive. Hard to detect. Hard to track late. But here’s the reality. The USS Abraham Lincoln isn’t alone. It’s surrounded by layers of radar, jets, and missile defenses. One missile isn’t enough. To actually break through, you need multiple launches at once to overwhelm defenses. So the threat is real. The missile is real. But a single strike won’t take down a U.S. carrier. Source: cnnnews18 YT
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran claims it fired a Qader cruise missile at a U.S. carrier group. The U.S. hasn’t confirmed it. Here’s what matters. The Qader is built to hit ships. It launches from land, flies just meters above the sea, and locks onto moving targets in the final seconds. Range: 120–300 km. Warhead: 200 kg high explosive. Hard to detect. Hard to track late. But here’s the reality. The USS Abraham Lincoln isn’t alone. It’s surrounded by layers of radar, jets, and missile defenses. One missile isn’t enough. To actually break through, you need multiple launches at once to overwhelm defenses. So the threat is real. The missile is real. But a single strike won’t take down a U.S. carrier. Source: cnnnews18 YT

Mario Nawfal

869,419 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

🚀Ukraine has tested a unique and secret super-weapon that reportedly has no equivalent in the world yet The company Fire Point (the same one that produces long-range drones and the “Flamingo” missile) has successfully carried out the first tests of a new anti-aircraft missile, the FP-7.x. It is the core of a future air defense system with the symbolic name “Freya,” designed to intercept Russian ballistic missiles such as “Iskanders” and “Kinzhal” missiles, as well as swarms of drones. The key feature is the cost. The Ukrainian missile is expected to cost around $700,000, compared to nearly $4 million for the American Patriot interceptor — more than five times cheaper. If everything goes according to plan, Ukraine may reduce its reliance on scarce interceptor missiles supplied by the United States. However, experts note that the new system cannot fully replace Patriot systems for now — it would rather significantly strengthen Ukraine’s air defense capabilities.
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🚀Ukraine has tested a unique and secret super-weapon that reportedly has no equivalent in the world yet The company Fire Point (the same one that produces long-range drones and the “Flamingo” missile) has successfully carried out the first tests of a new anti-aircraft missile, the FP-7.x. It is the core of a future air defense system with the symbolic name “Freya,” designed to intercept Russian ballistic missiles such as “Iskanders” and “Kinzhal” missiles, as well as swarms of drones. The key feature is the cost. The Ukrainian missile is expected to cost around $700,000, compared to nearly $4 million for the American Patriot interceptor — more than five times cheaper. If everything goes according to plan, Ukraine may reduce its reliance on scarce interceptor missiles supplied by the United States. However, experts note that the new system cannot fully replace Patriot systems for now — it would rather significantly strengthen Ukraine’s air defense capabilities.

NEXTA

225,798 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

The Pentagon is negotiating the purchase of Ukrainian interceptor drones. Just like us, they want to shoot down Iranian Shahed drones without wasting missiles that cost millions of dollars. Our Community helped bring interceptor drones into existence and scale this technology. We believed it was possible when most people thought the idea was crazy. And here we are — another video showing successful interceptions, including Shaheds equipped with cameras (spoiler: it didn’t help them). But you can help the Ukrainian Armed Forces shoot down even more Russian and Iranian drones. Donate and help Ukraine! PayPal (For non-lethal purchases): sternenkopaypal@gmail.com
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The Pentagon is negotiating the purchase of Ukrainian interceptor drones. Just like us, they want to shoot down Iranian Shahed drones without wasting missiles that cost millions of dollars. Our Community helped bring interceptor drones into existence and scale this technology. We believed it was possible when most people thought the idea was crazy. And here we are — another video showing successful interceptions, including Shaheds equipped with cameras (spoiler: it didn’t help them). But you can help the Ukrainian Armed Forces shoot down even more Russian and Iranian drones. Donate and help Ukraine! PayPal (For non-lethal purchases): [email protected]

Спільнота Стерненка

47,570 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce

🇷🇺 NATO’S $1M PROBLEM: SHOOTING DOWN $20K DRONES On paper, NATO’s air defenses look bulletproof. Patriot missiles. F-35s. Radar that can spot a seagull over Siberia. But Russia just exposed the gap: the Alliance can’t efficiently kill cheap drones. These aren’t high-tech stealth threats - they’re flying lawnmowers with explosives. Cost: about $20,000 each. The missile Poland used to take one down? Over a million. Congratulations, you just lost the world’s most expensive trade. NATO’s radar can see them - it just doesn’t make sense to waste million-dollar missiles on what are basically DIY kamikaze kits. And stocks of those missiles? Running low. Solutions exist: lasers (unlimited ammo, power-hungry as hell), flak guns (old-school, cheap, brutal), and interceptor drones (Ukraine’s already doing it). But none are scaled. Yet. The truth: NATO built a shield for Cold War giants - not swarm-sized ghosts. Prediction: expect the next arms race to look less like “Top Gun” and more like “Terminator with Wi-Fi.” Source: BBC, Reuters, NATO Reports, The Economist
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🇷🇺 NATO’S $1M PROBLEM: SHOOTING DOWN $20K DRONES On paper, NATO’s air defenses look bulletproof. Patriot missiles. F-35s. Radar that can spot a seagull over Siberia. But Russia just exposed the gap: the Alliance can’t efficiently kill cheap drones. These aren’t high-tech stealth threats - they’re flying lawnmowers with explosives. Cost: about $20,000 each. The missile Poland used to take one down? Over a million. Congratulations, you just lost the world’s most expensive trade. NATO’s radar can see them - it just doesn’t make sense to waste million-dollar missiles on what are basically DIY kamikaze kits. And stocks of those missiles? Running low. Solutions exist: lasers (unlimited ammo, power-hungry as hell), flak guns (old-school, cheap, brutal), and interceptor drones (Ukraine’s already doing it). But none are scaled. Yet. The truth: NATO built a shield for Cold War giants - not swarm-sized ghosts. Prediction: expect the next arms race to look less like “Top Gun” and more like “Terminator with Wi-Fi.” Source: BBC, Reuters, NATO Reports, The Economist

Mario Nawfal

233,637 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce

Russian report: Gulf air defenses face a “million-dollar missile vs. a drone costing a few thousand dollars” dilemma The Russian Center for Analysis of World Arms Trade published a study and analysis concluding that Gulf states’ reliance on long-range U.S. air defense systems against low-cost threats such as attack drones creates a significant gap between the cost of the attack and the cost of interception. The center noted that an Iranian Shahed-136 drone is estimated to cost around $20,000–$50,000 , while a PAC-3 interceptor missile can cost approximately $4 million , making the interception of large-scale drone attacks extremely expensive. The report argues that systems such as Patriot and THAAD were largely designed to counter long-range threats and ballistic missiles, while Gulf states need diversified defensive layers, including short- and medium-range systems to counter drones, cruise missiles, and low-altitude targets. The center proposed strengthening air defenses with Russian systems such as Buk-M3 “Viking” for medium-range defense, Tor for short-range defense, and Pantsir-S1M to protect critical infrastructure from close-range threats. According to the report, combining long-, medium-, and short-range systems could increase the number of engagement channels and reduce the depletion of costly interceptor missiles, particularly around oil refineries, desalination plants, ports, and energy facilities. The Russian center concludes that addressing the cost gap between offensive weapons and interceptors could make large-scale drone attacks less economically viable by building a layered defense system capable of countering threats at a more balanced cost.
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Russian report: Gulf air defenses face a “million-dollar missile vs. a drone costing a few thousand dollars” dilemma The Russian Center for Analysis of World Arms Trade published a study and analysis concluding that Gulf states’ reliance on long-range U.S. air defense systems against low-cost threats such as attack drones creates a significant gap between the cost of the attack and the cost of interception. The center noted that an Iranian Shahed-136 drone is estimated to cost around $20,000–$50,000 , while a PAC-3 interceptor missile can cost approximately $4 million , making the interception of large-scale drone attacks extremely expensive. The report argues that systems such as Patriot and THAAD were largely designed to counter long-range threats and ballistic missiles, while Gulf states need diversified defensive layers, including short- and medium-range systems to counter drones, cruise missiles, and low-altitude targets. The center proposed strengthening air defenses with Russian systems such as Buk-M3 “Viking” for medium-range defense, Tor for short-range defense, and Pantsir-S1M to protect critical infrastructure from close-range threats. According to the report, combining long-, medium-, and short-range systems could increase the number of engagement channels and reduce the depletion of costly interceptor missiles, particularly around oil refineries, desalination plants, ports, and energy facilities. The Russian center concludes that addressing the cost gap between offensive weapons and interceptors could make large-scale drone attacks less economically viable by building a layered defense system capable of countering threats at a more balanced cost.

RussiaNews 🇷🇺

13,364 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

🚨🇺🇦🇮🇷THE DRONE WARS ARE REWRITING HOW THE WORLD FIGHTS For decades, military power meant expensive hardware: stealth jets, cruise missiles, precision weapons costing millions. Ukraine and Iran just proved something uncomfortable: You can challenge that power with $20,000 drones. Iran’s Shahed drones, now used heavily by Russia in Ukraine, cost roughly $20,000 to $50,000 and are built to be produced in huge numbers. Launch dozens at once and even the most advanced air defenses struggle to keep up. Shooting them down with multimillion-dollar interceptors quickly becomes a losing economic battle. Ukraine has faced tens of thousands of these drones since 2022 and has been forced to improvise a new style of warfare in response. Instead of relying solely on expensive missile systems, Ukrainian forces developed cheaper counters: machine-gun teams, electronic warfare. interceptor drones costing only a few thousand dollars. The lesson is spreading fast. Countries watching the Ukraine war, and Iran’s growing drone campaigns in the Middle East, are realizing the future battlefield won’t be dominated by a handful of exquisite weapons. It will be dominated by swarms of cheap ones. Factories, not fighter jets, may decide wars. And the real contest will be economic: who can produce drones, interceptors, and countermeasures faster and cheaper. The drone wars in Ukraine and Iran aren’t just regional conflicts; they’re the world’s first glimpse of a new military reality. One where air power no longer belongs only to nations that can afford billion-dollar air forces.
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🚨🇺🇦🇮🇷THE DRONE WARS ARE REWRITING HOW THE WORLD FIGHTS For decades, military power meant expensive hardware: stealth jets, cruise missiles, precision weapons costing millions. Ukraine and Iran just proved something uncomfortable: You can challenge that power with $20,000 drones. Iran’s Shahed drones, now used heavily by Russia in Ukraine, cost roughly $20,000 to $50,000 and are built to be produced in huge numbers. Launch dozens at once and even the most advanced air defenses struggle to keep up. Shooting them down with multimillion-dollar interceptors quickly becomes a losing economic battle. Ukraine has faced tens of thousands of these drones since 2022 and has been forced to improvise a new style of warfare in response. Instead of relying solely on expensive missile systems, Ukrainian forces developed cheaper counters: machine-gun teams, electronic warfare. interceptor drones costing only a few thousand dollars. The lesson is spreading fast. Countries watching the Ukraine war, and Iran’s growing drone campaigns in the Middle East, are realizing the future battlefield won’t be dominated by a handful of exquisite weapons. It will be dominated by swarms of cheap ones. Factories, not fighter jets, may decide wars. And the real contest will be economic: who can produce drones, interceptors, and countermeasures faster and cheaper. The drone wars in Ukraine and Iran aren’t just regional conflicts; they’re the world’s first glimpse of a new military reality. One where air power no longer belongs only to nations that can afford billion-dollar air forces.

Mario Nawfal

130,587 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

🇮🇷🇺🇸 A cruise missile kills a target once. An interceptor gets spent every single time something flies at you, and it takes more than one per incoming. That asymmetry is the whole war, says veteran correspondent Elijah Magnier. The U.S. still has bombers, carriers, subs and regional bases. What it doesn't have is an endless interceptor supply covering Israel, the Gulf bases and the fleet simultaneously. Iran floods it with cheap drones and decoys and lets the arithmetic do the work. Elijah doesn't see another 40 days in this. A week or 2, then what? Iran needs a handful of drones to keep Hormuz closed. So if bombing can't reopen the Strait, what's the buildup actually for? Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 A cruise missile kills a target once. An interceptor gets spent every single time something flies at you, and it takes more than one per incoming. That asymmetry is the whole war, says veteran correspondent Elijah Magnier. The U.S. still has bombers, carriers, subs and regional bases. What it doesn't have is an endless interceptor supply covering Israel, the Gulf bases and the fleet simultaneously. Iran floods it with cheap drones and decoys and lets the arithmetic do the work. Elijah doesn't see another 40 days in this. A week or 2, then what? Iran needs a handful of drones to keep Hormuz closed. So if bombing can't reopen the Strait, what's the buildup actually for? Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺

Mario Nawfal

114,586 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

🇨🇳 CHINA JUST FLEW A DRONE CARRIER THAT LAUNCHES SWARMS - WELCOME TO WARFARE'S NEXT NIGHTMARE China successfully tested "Jiutian" (High Sky) - a massive unmanned mothership designed to deploy large-scale drone swarms mid-flight. Picture a flying aircraft carrier, except it's unmanned, costs a fraction of the real thing, and instead of launching jets, it releases hundreds of smaller attack drones. The mothership flies to theater, releases the swarm, coordinates their attack, then leaves. The smaller drones overwhelm air defenses through sheer numbers while the expensive platform stays out of danger. Here's why this breaks everything: Air defense systems are built to intercept missiles and aircraft one at a time. Expensive interceptors vs. expensive threats. The math works. Drone swarms flip that equation. You can't shoot down 500 drones with 500 million-dollar missiles. The defender goes bankrupt before the attacker runs out of drones. And Jiutian solves the range problem. Small drones can't fly far. But a mothership extends their reach by thousands of miles. Launch close to target, attack, return to base. The U.S. has been researching this concept for years. China just flew it. Russia's been using cheap drones to deplete Ukrainian air defense. Now imagine that scaled up with a platform that can deploy coordinated swarms anywhere in the Pacific. Taiwan Strait? South China Sea? U.S. carrier groups suddenly face threats they can't economically counter. American carriers cost $13 billion each. Jiutian probably costs under $100 million. The drones it launches? Maybe $50,000 each. Send 1,000 of them at a carrier battle group and watch the defense budget evaporate trying to stop them all. Pentagon's been warning about this exact scenario. Now they're watching China demonstrate the prototype. The next war won't be won by who has the most advanced fighters or biggest ships. It'll be won by who can field the most disposable drones faster than the enemy can shoot them down. China just showed they understand that future better than anyone expected. Source: Clash Report
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🇨🇳 CHINA JUST FLEW A DRONE CARRIER THAT LAUNCHES SWARMS - WELCOME TO WARFARE'S NEXT NIGHTMARE China successfully tested "Jiutian" (High Sky) - a massive unmanned mothership designed to deploy large-scale drone swarms mid-flight. Picture a flying aircraft carrier, except it's unmanned, costs a fraction of the real thing, and instead of launching jets, it releases hundreds of smaller attack drones. The mothership flies to theater, releases the swarm, coordinates their attack, then leaves. The smaller drones overwhelm air defenses through sheer numbers while the expensive platform stays out of danger. Here's why this breaks everything: Air defense systems are built to intercept missiles and aircraft one at a time. Expensive interceptors vs. expensive threats. The math works. Drone swarms flip that equation. You can't shoot down 500 drones with 500 million-dollar missiles. The defender goes bankrupt before the attacker runs out of drones. And Jiutian solves the range problem. Small drones can't fly far. But a mothership extends their reach by thousands of miles. Launch close to target, attack, return to base. The U.S. has been researching this concept for years. China just flew it. Russia's been using cheap drones to deplete Ukrainian air defense. Now imagine that scaled up with a platform that can deploy coordinated swarms anywhere in the Pacific. Taiwan Strait? South China Sea? U.S. carrier groups suddenly face threats they can't economically counter. American carriers cost $13 billion each. Jiutian probably costs under $100 million. The drones it launches? Maybe $50,000 each. Send 1,000 of them at a carrier battle group and watch the defense budget evaporate trying to stop them all. Pentagon's been warning about this exact scenario. Now they're watching China demonstrate the prototype. The next war won't be won by who has the most advanced fighters or biggest ships. It'll be won by who can field the most disposable drones faster than the enemy can shoot them down. China just showed they understand that future better than anyone expected. Source: Clash Report

Mario Nawfal

271,288 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

🇮🇱 How Israel's Iron Dome works A radar detects an incoming rocket, tracking it across distances of up to 100 km. That data is instantly fed into a battle management system, the brain, which calculates something critical: not just where the rocket is, but where it will land. If it’s headed for an open field, the system does nothing. If it’s headed for a city, a school, a home, that’s when the decision is made. Interceptor launched. Within moments, a Tamir missile streaks upward, guided by sensors that lock onto the incoming threat. It doesn’t need a direct hit; it just needs to get close enough to detonate and shred the rocket before impact. Source: AI Telly
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🇮🇱 How Israel's Iron Dome works A radar detects an incoming rocket, tracking it across distances of up to 100 km. That data is instantly fed into a battle management system, the brain, which calculates something critical: not just where the rocket is, but where it will land. If it’s headed for an open field, the system does nothing. If it’s headed for a city, a school, a home, that’s when the decision is made. Interceptor launched. Within moments, a Tamir missile streaks upward, guided by sensors that lock onto the incoming threat. It doesn’t need a direct hit; it just needs to get close enough to detonate and shred the rocket before impact. Source: AI Telly

Mario Nawfal

60,387 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce