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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The laser burning cartel drones over Texas right now is the same weapon America is counting on against Iran's Shaheds Joint Task Force Southern Border has taken down eleven cartel drones since late August with truck-mounted LOCUST systems from AeroVironment, and drone activity in those sectors has fallen...

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Make Israel Christian Again ✝️10 days ago

Trump will accuse the cartel groups in Mexico of being Iranian proxies on America’s doorstep and bomb Mexico! Otherwise he wouldn’t care 🤣

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Melissa10 days ago

truck mounted lasers feels straight out of a video game

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Pompliano10 days ago

Lasers work in clear air on small drones. Weather, range, and bigger incoming swarms are the next test.

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ImaPirateArrrr10 days ago

How do they know they are cartel drones? I have a feeling some kid is going home crying after his drone gets blasted.

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🟡 Senior Hezbollah Official Wafiq Safa to The Grayzone: Over the 15 months (from November 2024 to March 2026) in which Israel was attacking our people and Lebanon, Hezbollah was giving the Lebanese state and diplomacy a chance to stop these attacks. During that time, Hezbollah was developing its capabilities, in missiles, drones, and fighters, both in quantity and quality. In this latest war, the fighters were able to focus on this specific weapon, the FPV drone. It is very simple, and the idea was used without major cost or effort. Its effect is not only in wounding or killing the enemy. It also affects the morale of the Israeli army and its soldiers. Imagine the soldiers now hide during the day and move at night. Even the measure they took, the protective netting, Hezbollah deliberately flew the drones through the middle of the netting in more than one operation. We also believe the FPV drone is a form of response to the pager operation. Israel’s goal behind the pager attack was not only to kill, but to cause injuries to the eyes and hands. The Israeli enemy now admits that many injuries from these drones are to the face and hands. And if the resistance surprised them with the FPV drone, is there another weapon that will surprise the enemy? Certainly there is. (Full interview with Wyatt Reed from the The Grayzone is linked below)
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🟡 Senior Hezbollah Official Wafiq Safa to The Grayzone: Over the 15 months (from November 2024 to March 2026) in which Israel was attacking our people and Lebanon, Hezbollah was giving the Lebanese state and diplomacy a chance to stop these attacks. During that time, Hezbollah was developing its capabilities, in missiles, drones, and fighters, both in quantity and quality. In this latest war, the fighters were able to focus on this specific weapon, the FPV drone. It is very simple, and the idea was used without major cost or effort. Its effect is not only in wounding or killing the enemy. It also affects the morale of the Israeli army and its soldiers. Imagine the soldiers now hide during the day and move at night. Even the measure they took, the protective netting, Hezbollah deliberately flew the drones through the middle of the netting in more than one operation. We also believe the FPV drone is a form of response to the pager operation. Israel’s goal behind the pager attack was not only to kill, but to cause injuries to the eyes and hands. The Israeli enemy now admits that many injuries from these drones are to the face and hands. And if the resistance surprised them with the FPV drone, is there another weapon that will surprise the enemy? Certainly there is. (Full interview with Wyatt Reed from the The Grayzone is linked below)

Drop Site

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The video is seductive. A fighter jet, twin engines blazing, taking fuel at 30,000 feet. It looks like power. It looks like the future. It is neither. The manned fighter jet is one of the most expensive objects a democracy can operate. Training a single combat-ready pilot costs between seven and eight million dollars and takes the better part of three years. The aircraft itself burns through roughly $27,000 every hour it is airborne, before anything goes wrong and something always goes wrong. Then consider what happens on a typical mission. The aircraft launches, flies for five to seven hours, burning through $135,000 to $190,000 in operating costs before a single weapon leaves the wing. It carries perhaps six to nine missiles, each costing anywhere from $300,000 to over a million dollars depending on type. That is the full arsenal. Six to nine shots. After that, the most expensive flying machine in history turns around and goes home. For decades, that cost was justified by what those missiles could do. Nothing in the sky could survive them. The logic was sound. Then someone in a warehouse glued an engine to a set of wings, added a cheap GPS chip, and sent ten thousand of them toward their enemies for less than the cost of a single intercept. In the first week of Operation Epic Fury, Iran fired over 500 ballistic missiles and nearly 2,000 drones at U.S. bases and Israeli cities, burning through over 800 Patriot interceptor missiles in three days.  Lockheed Martin produced roughly 600 Patriot interceptors in all of 2025. Iran consumed more than that in 72 hours. A Shahed drone costs around $30,000. A single Patriot interceptor costs millions.  The asymmetry is structural. Ukraine’s “Spider’s Web” operation used 117 drones hidden in cargo trucks to inflict an estimated $7 billion in damage on Russian strategic bombers at a total cost of roughly $234,000. For every dollar spent attacking, defenders lost $30,000 in assets.  A manned fighter carrying nine missiles cannot survive this arithmetic. It launches, burns $150,000 getting to the fight, expends its rack against a swarm of cheap drones, and returns empty while the next wave is already inbound. Ukraine built interceptor drones for between $1,000 and $2,500 each and moved them from prototype to mass production within months.  The Pentagon spent decades perfecting the opposite approach. The manned fighter is obsolete because the threat it was designed to defeat has been replaced by one it cannot economically engage. Capability without sustainability is just an expensive way to lose slowly. The video is beautiful. The paradigm it represents is finished. Gandalv / Gandalv
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The video is seductive. A fighter jet, twin engines blazing, taking fuel at 30,000 feet. It looks like power. It looks like the future. It is neither. The manned fighter jet is one of the most expensive objects a democracy can operate. Training a single combat-ready pilot costs between seven and eight million dollars and takes the better part of three years. The aircraft itself burns through roughly $27,000 every hour it is airborne, before anything goes wrong and something always goes wrong. Then consider what happens on a typical mission. The aircraft launches, flies for five to seven hours, burning through $135,000 to $190,000 in operating costs before a single weapon leaves the wing. It carries perhaps six to nine missiles, each costing anywhere from $300,000 to over a million dollars depending on type. That is the full arsenal. Six to nine shots. After that, the most expensive flying machine in history turns around and goes home. For decades, that cost was justified by what those missiles could do. Nothing in the sky could survive them. The logic was sound. Then someone in a warehouse glued an engine to a set of wings, added a cheap GPS chip, and sent ten thousand of them toward their enemies for less than the cost of a single intercept. In the first week of Operation Epic Fury, Iran fired over 500 ballistic missiles and nearly 2,000 drones at U.S. bases and Israeli cities, burning through over 800 Patriot interceptor missiles in three days.  Lockheed Martin produced roughly 600 Patriot interceptors in all of 2025. Iran consumed more than that in 72 hours. A Shahed drone costs around $30,000. A single Patriot interceptor costs millions.  The asymmetry is structural. Ukraine’s “Spider’s Web” operation used 117 drones hidden in cargo trucks to inflict an estimated $7 billion in damage on Russian strategic bombers at a total cost of roughly $234,000. For every dollar spent attacking, defenders lost $30,000 in assets.  A manned fighter carrying nine missiles cannot survive this arithmetic. It launches, burns $150,000 getting to the fight, expends its rack against a swarm of cheap drones, and returns empty while the next wave is already inbound. Ukraine built interceptor drones for between $1,000 and $2,500 each and moved them from prototype to mass production within months.  The Pentagon spent decades perfecting the opposite approach. The manned fighter is obsolete because the threat it was designed to defeat has been replaced by one it cannot economically engage. Capability without sustainability is just an expensive way to lose slowly. The video is beautiful. The paradigm it represents is finished. Gandalv / Gandalv

Gandalv

92,237 views • 6 months ago

The High-Stakes Escalation in the Middle East 💥 " Trump can hit us hard... but Iran can hit back." Professor Seyed Marandi (Seyed Mohammad Marandi) lays out the stark reality of the Iran war and why the U.S. strategy is pushing the region toward a breaking point. “Iran is progressing… its missiles and drones are getting better as time goes on while the United States is facing a crisis.” “When the United States runs out of those critical weapon systems, Iran will still have missiles and drones.” He warns that if Washington strikes Iran’s infrastructure, “Iran will take out everything in the region… oil fields on fire and LNG refineries on fire.” That would trigger a global economic depression and force “millions of people… to leave the Arabian Peninsula.” And on Iran’s refusal to surrender: “If they submit… then the country is finished.” Marandi says Americans increasingly see this conflict for what it is: “This is a war for Netanyahu… Kushner’s war… not for the American people.” 👉 Watch the full clip — the stakes of the Iran war are now unmistakable.
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The High-Stakes Escalation in the Middle East 💥 " Trump can hit us hard... but Iran can hit back." Professor Seyed Marandi (Seyed Mohammad Marandi) lays out the stark reality of the Iran war and why the U.S. strategy is pushing the region toward a breaking point. “Iran is progressing… its missiles and drones are getting better as time goes on while the United States is facing a crisis.” “When the United States runs out of those critical weapon systems, Iran will still have missiles and drones.” He warns that if Washington strikes Iran’s infrastructure, “Iran will take out everything in the region… oil fields on fire and LNG refineries on fire.” That would trigger a global economic depression and force “millions of people… to leave the Arabian Peninsula.” And on Iran’s refusal to surrender: “If they submit… then the country is finished.” Marandi says Americans increasingly see this conflict for what it is: “This is a war for Netanyahu… Kushner’s war… not for the American people.” 👉 Watch the full clip — the stakes of the Iran war are now unmistakable.

Daniel Davis Deep Dive

15,214 views • 1 month ago

India’s New DRDO Laser Weapon: How DRDO's 30kW Drone Killer Changes Modern Warfare India is changing the economics of modern air defence. A drone costing only a few thousand dollars can force an army to fire a missile worth hundreds of thousands or even millions. Now, India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is preparing a revolutionary answer: instead of launching an expensive interceptor, it wants to burn drones out of the sky with a high-energy beam of light. India's indigenous 30-kilowatt truck-mounted laser weapon, which is officially moving from successful trials toward industrial mass production. Designed to neutralise fixed-wing UAVs, drone swarms, and surveillance sensors at ranges of up to five kilometres, this Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) could become the ultimate shield in India’s air-defence network Divya Kochar
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India’s New DRDO Laser Weapon: How DRDO's 30kW Drone Killer Changes Modern Warfare India is changing the economics of modern air defence. A drone costing only a few thousand dollars can force an army to fire a missile worth hundreds of thousands or even millions. Now, India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is preparing a revolutionary answer: instead of launching an expensive interceptor, it wants to burn drones out of the sky with a high-energy beam of light. India's indigenous 30-kilowatt truck-mounted laser weapon, which is officially moving from successful trials toward industrial mass production. Designed to neutralise fixed-wing UAVs, drone swarms, and surveillance sensors at ranges of up to five kilometres, this Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) could become the ultimate shield in India’s air-defence network Divya Kochar

The Times Of India

22,559 views • 3 days ago