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- world@lemmy.world
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- world@lemmy.world
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.
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