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A Tomahawk is a land attack weapon..... what are you even getting at? Are you trying to say that we are using one Tomahawk for one drone? Cause that also is not the case. The Tomahawks (which they have released video of) are hitting hardened targets, storage places of multiple drones, or production facilities. We are using one way attack drones for the individual drones or MQ-9 Reaper's that fire Hellfires.... this is clearly presented in evidence so I have no idea why you think we are launching a Tomahawk against a single drone because we arent.
Its also why with this type of warfare the quadcopters do not have a roll because there are no ground troops and the US has nothing near Iran to be able to hit them. They could attempt to down things with quad copers but we have seen in Ukraine how hard that is and thats why Ukraine made interceptor drones.
'Beyond gas prices, Trump also faces the challenge of how to quickly refill shrinking military stockpiles. The Trump administration is expected to ask Congress to provide more money to help pay for the costs associated with the war, including the purchase of Patriot, Tomahawk and Thaad antimissile systems, which have been in heavy use since Israel and the U.S. began their strikes.
But such defensive equipment, along with munitions, can’t be manufactured quickly—even though Trump has been trying to browbeat defense contractors into ramping up production.
“Hopefully, we had our eye on the ball on this before we went into this conflict,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R., Ala.) told reporters last week. “It takes years to build these things—not days, not weeks, but years,” he said, referring to the Thaad antiballistic-missile systems, which are made in Alabama.'
You know we began ramping up production a couple of years ago and now that production is coming online. The US employes a layered defense system allowing for certain areas to run to zero and there still be coverage. Redundancy is amazing.
Oh and dont forget about the Navy's HELIOS that is silently in operation in during this conflict. For a whooping couple of dollars..... Who else has that type of weaponry operational? Well Israel does have Iron Beam but who has them on boats.... shooting down targets or well these targets randomly getting destroyed I should say without munitions fired at them....
Yes China won the trade war and so USA tries to retain hegemony with brute force military aggression.
What a poor loser Trump and USA are.
Trump is a war criminal leading an empire in chronic moral, economic and military decline.
Trumps invasion of Iran is just as much a war crime as Russia invasion of Ukraine.
The USA has lost any moral high ground if it ever had any.
US and Israel are running out of defensive missiles.
The end of empire is dawning.
'Hand over Taiwan' will be the demand from China next month- Trump will look like the war criminal clown that he is.
US military industrial complex is broken.
Thats.... thats just plan not true and you can do the math with the payloads the US sent to the Middle East. Plus factor in the dramatic drop off in Iran and that people are just moving to C RAMs instead. The only things starting to get through are the attacks on civilian infrastructure that the US didnt place coverage at because it wasnt well a US base. Things that have gotten through have no affected operations at all while Iran has no navy and no air force.
China has purged all of their capable generals they have a hollow leadership. Xi Jinping has no military experience so the idea he is able to even threaten or wage a war is hilarious.
'Beyond gas prices, Trump also faces the challenge of how to quickly refill shrinking military stockpiles. The Trump administration is expected to ask Congress to provide more money to help pay for the costs associated with the war, including the purchase of Patriot, Tomahawk and Thaad antimissile systems, which have been in heavy use since Israel and the U.S. began their strikes.
But such defensive equipment, along with munitions, can’t be manufactured quickly—even though Trump has been trying to browbeat defense contractors into ramping up production.
“Hopefully, we had our eye on the ball on this before we went into this conflict,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R., Ala.) told reporters last week. “It takes years to build these things—not days, not weeks, but years,” he said, referring to the Thaad antiballistic-missile systems, which are made in Alabama.'
Yes USA lost the trade war so resorts to brute force war crimes.
USA rogue state assassinating Irans leaders and threatening to continue with the same WAR CRIMES until USA gets its way.
Are you proud of being an apologist for war crimes and naked military aggression?
Please tell me how you are so certain the trade war is lost? No one else talks like that even China doesnt talk like that.
The US didnt kill Iran's leader. Israel has taken all the credit for that one and taking out there top officers. The US bombed military targets. The Iranians are racking up crazy war crimes with attacking civilian infrastructure from countries that did nothing. Blowing up civilian naval boats. Funding terror proxies that attack civilians and civilian shipping. You are so proud in yourself but again you fail to back up your claims. Iran murdered 35k people less than a month ago thats a crime against humanity.
You gotta decide make sure you blame the right people considering Iran isnt saying the US bombed there leaders. They have owned killing protestors though. They have admitted to hitting civilian infrastructure though. Using your examples no the US isnt committing war crimes but Iran sure is!
Oh and again still nice job ignoring facts again.... they really blow a hole in your whole little world and you just cant even engage. You scream war crimes when well we arent.
USA cannot manufacture most things competitively anymore- China is the most efficient manufacturer in the world and so dominates markets for manufactured goods and commodities.
This is well known and I am surprised you deny it.
The US is responsible for what its only ally in this illegal war does- without US support Israel would not have the military capability that it does.
It is a breach of international law that USA has committed and undermines decades of post WW2 standards and efforts to prevent bullying of smaller nations by larger ones.
Now USA is following the war crimes model of Russia- this should be concerning for anyone who does not want the world to be ruled by war criminals.
'The Shahed drone shows the paradox of modern warfare. Aircraft carriers, F-35 fighter jets and other big-ticket weapons systems deliver crushing military force. But they come in small numbers at eye-watering costs. The Tomahawk cruise missiles the U.S. fired at Iran cost $2.5 million apiece. A Shahed drone costs Iran less than $50,000. The Iranian drone isn’t as powerful, but a country can build 50 of them for the price of a single Tomahawk. And shooting them down uses up limited stocks of defensive missiles. That asymmetry can give a smaller country an edge over what might appear to be an overwhelming military force.'
WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/drones-are-the-future-of-warfare-3f49de93