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KurtUSA's avatar

Maybe a drone with a small air to air missile to take down the drones. Make our drones a little faster so they can get within range. Or even just drones that crash into the drones or get close and explode or drone that shoot off bird shot -00 buck shot. If we can fill the air every fourth of July with fireworks, why can't we do the same to take down drones? You don't need to get all of them. Just as a first line of defense then what gets through needs to be dealt with using more expensive interceptors.

Jordan Schachtel's avatar

Yes, there's LOTS of companies working on this kind of tech. It's just not all the way there yet.

Marilynne Martin's avatar

Personally I do not believe this current narrative (US getting its ass kicked by Iranian drones). Remember back in 2009, Obama was the "drone president".

We invented this technology. All DARPA.

So why do they want us to believe that we are running out of ammo?

Oh lets remember the WEF narrative - prediction #2 for 2030 - The US won't be the world's superpower. A handful of countries will dominate.

https://youtu.be/GHiTgLn91j4?si=fNNj3Pm1GPOg617N

Ray-SoCa's avatar

Unfortunately internal U.S. military politics has held back deployment of drone technology in all branches, plus defense contractor lobbying. The over priced 2 trillion, behind schedule, low availability f-35 is a great example of this.

https://centristlibertarianpatriot.substack.com/p/we-are-spending-2-trillion-at-least?

jtrudel trudelgroup.com's avatar

"The Islamic Republic is striking our Gulf partners and American bases across the region with drones that cost less than a used car. We are stopping them with hard to produce and expensive missiles."

CORRECT. TOO MANY YEARS OF OBAMA, BIDEN, ETC. WE NEED, AND WILL GET, LESS EXPENSIVE WEAPONS TAYLORED TO SUCH THREATS. RIGHT NOW, THE ISSUE IS TO END ISLAMIST IRAN.

Fridayschild's avatar

Or the US could simply leave the ME to the ME and stop being the world's #1 terrorist.

Kevin Beck's avatar

This is what is meant by asymmetric warfare. Iran is using something that may have cost a few thousand dollars equivalent, while the US is firing $1 million missiles to down them.

What a waste!

Is there a better way? Maybe; we just don't have that solution available where we need it.

Richard's avatar

Globalist neglect of our manufacturing base and not just the military part. WW2 buildup saw massive conversion of civilian manufacturing and that's gone too.

Richard Bicker's avatar

Your post has, at this writing, a comment in "Hidden" (to which I responded there) that I don't believe merits removal from the others here. Was it automatically culled or was it purposely placed there and, if so, why and by whom (what)?

Charles Clemens's avatar

If we believed the MSM, we deserve to be conquered by Islam. There is 'stupid' and then there is super-stupid.

ward142's avatar

WOW! America is finding out the hard way that it's a whole new ball game. Question! How many drones does it take to sink an aircraft carrier? We may find out real soon, then what? Then, Trump can go to Congress and demand a declaration of war, the draft starts, and ladies get in line. American industry goes on a war footing. Young men rush to get trained to work in war plants. Trump goes to live in his underground bunker. Congress scatters to the four winds. after the massive drone attack on Washington, D.C. With most of the young in uniform, Senior citizens will be drafted for war work.

Charles Peter's avatar

The IRGC in all likelihood would not allow the citizens of that city to leave.

Nick's avatar

How is this possible? Its been one quagmire after another with Iran for decades and I guess that still hasn't changed. Of course its possible this information is not true, but it seems to be true. I have never understood why anyone is okay with outsourcing or offshoring critical manufacturing. I don't even like that most of our non-critical stuff is manufactured overseas. One of the things I like most about Trump is his push to bring back manufacturing to the states (whether it will end up being effective or not remains to be seen). But manufacturing aside, I don't think it would fix this current problem. Somebody somewhere (probably multiple somebodies) made conscious decisions to not invest in counter measures to these type of weapons. They had to have known these type of attacks were possible from our adversaries and they also had to have known Iran had these capabilities. Its impossible to believe with all the technology and intelligence network and unlimited budget we have that we didn't know any of this. I can only assume we intentionally put ourselves in this position.

Henry Franks's avatar

How about a change in Foreign Policy?