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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by DJC -
It’s interesting that we supplied AMRAAMs to UAE along with the Wedgetail electronic warfare aircraft.

An AMRAAM costs $2.4M, a Shahed drone costs $20K.  That’s asymmetrical warfare.

Ukraine is leading the world in countering the Shahed drone threat with effective and relatively cheap weapons systems, including the Australian Slinger and Droneshield systems.

The USA expressed an interest in our Wedgetail but decided that their satellite system was better; it’s not!  Similarly, the USA determined that their high tech, expensive anti-aircraft missiles were the best anti-drone weapons; they’re not!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by LP -
The asymmetry of modern warfare is a big deal, any country can knock up dozens or even hundreds of drones a day, in fact Australia has been a leader in this teaching Ukraine to manufacture cardboard drones that are virtually radar invisible and can be built for a few dollars each while delivering astounding lethality. All the fancy design and sleek carbon fibre lines are actually a hinderance.

In the meantime active defence systems are complicated and need calibration and tuning to be effective, if operated without calibration the defences become like deploying fly swatters versus a swarming hive.

Phalanx and such systems even need calibrated munitions to perform effectively, you just can't make enough of the good munitions fast enough to sustain long term battles, so they put troops on the ground.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by DJC -
It has been reported that Israel has told the USA that it is running dangerously low on anti-ballistic missile munitions.

That's despite Taco claiming that Iran is "essentially defeated".

Taco stated that he made the decision to attack Iran "based on what Steve [Witkoff] and Jared [Kushner], and Pete [Hegseth] and others were telling me ... Marco [Rubio] so involved, and that I thought they were going to attack us."

Apart from Iran not having the capacity to attack the USA, what makes Witkoff, Kushner, Hegseth and Rubio experts on military strategy and threat assessments?  It now seems clear that JD Vance advised against attacking Iran, as did the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine.

And then there's Chris Wright, the Administration's Energy Secretary, who announced that he was not concerned that the war might disrupt oil supplies in the Middle East and wreak havoc in energy markets.