Most shot down14 Apr 2024 23:43
From cnbc
“ Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles against military targets in Israel on Saturday in an attack that President Joe Biden described as “unprecedented.” The U.S. intervened to directly help Israel shoot down nearly all of the incoming munitions, Biden said in a statement Saturday.
Though significant in scale, the Iranian attack caused little actual damage in Israel. The Nevatim Air Force Base in southern Israel suffered slight damage and a 10-year-old girl suffered severe injuries, according Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari.”
I always wandered what the resilience against a drone attack was.
So when you launch 300 drones and telegraph it across the world so the super-powers who are in area and have plenty of time for counter-measures get set. Plus you then have the last line of defence waiting in Israel.
Yet. Only ‘most are shot down’!
A 10 year old girl is severally injured and I guess many more.
But the point is what happens when you launch 1000 drones at a UK frigate ‘puffing its chest out’ in the Straits?
Or for that matter 10000 at a US carrier. Even if they shoot them all down. Burning some £1.5m a pop missiles taking out a £5k drone. What next on the third wave?
The straits could quickly become like the Black Sea. A no go! Or for that matter how Kharkiv is becoming but the world seems to have forgotten!
I think the defence ineffectiveness is why The West aren’t giving a kill count. They are pretty sht are ‘shooting clays’!
A critical lesson and back to the drawing board and/or a massive rethink on the laser tech!
As for our frigates, ‘sitting ducks’. They can’t even fire starboard and port simultaneously at scale. We can’t even stop a frigging boat crossing the channel! We don’t even have surface to surface missiles on board to hit land targets! Let alone have the armed services resources or supportive patriotic population for that matter!
I can see these drones taking a major scalp soon! Lessons will then be learnt! And the Palestinian flags will be celebrating in London.
What a fking self inflicted mess!
Trek
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