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Author: AdrianC ⎊🐝  😊 😞
Number: of 75964 
Subject: Shahed drones
Date: 03/04/26 10:05 AM
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Hadn't heard this before - the US took a Shahed, improved it, and is using that design against Iran.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/04/world/video/iran-sh...

However, to take out a $50k Shahed we are using expensive interceptor missiles.

US air defenses may not be able to intercept many of Iran’s one-way drones
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/04/politics/us-air-def...

The drones, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine acknowledged, are posing a bigger problem than anticipated, two sources in the briefing told CNN. They are known to fly low and slow – a feature that makes them more able to evade air defenses than ballistic missiles. Another source familiar with the briefing said the officials made an attempt to downplay concerns about the drones and noted that Gulf state partners had been stockpiling interceptors.

Did we not learn from Ukraine?
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Author: AdrianC ⎊🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Shahed drones
Date: 03/04/26 2:28 PM
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Missile defense for $5 billion a day:
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/d...®i_id=93871742&segment_id=216131&sendId=216131&uri=nyt://newsletter/38739a50-0578-5d9f-9c6d-5cf16cfb42ed&user_id=51b0c9c24bd2dd2f56f41e7a59b7089a

The battlefield costs add up quickly. Kavanagh estimates that the U.S. “easily” spent more than $10 billion on air-defense systems in the current war’s first 48 hours. That is largely attributed to the high-end weapons systems, such as the THAAD ($12.7 million per interceptor missile) and the Patriot ($3.7 million per missile), used to strike down attacking drones and missiles.

Asymmetric economics: The defense systems cost orders of magnitude more than the Iranian weapons they’re shooting down. One common Iranian drone, the Shahed-136, costs roughly $35,000 and can be quickly produced. In the first few days of the conflict, Iran launched as many as 2,000 drones, most of them Shaheds.

Oh boy.
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Author: benjd25 ✶  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Shahed drones
Date: 03/04/26 4:09 PM
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Did we not learn from Ukraine?

Smart people learned from Ukraine. The people in charge of the federal government are not smart people.
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Author: AdrianC ⎊🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Shahed drones
Date: 03/09/26 10:28 AM
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Ukrainian anti-drone 'bullet' that could help defend Gulf
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cpv83ndmezno

Cool.
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