As the U.S. runs short of interceptor missiles, Iran is carrying out strikes with a mix of attack drones and advanced ballistic missiles.
  • limonfiesta@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    35 minutes ago

    Defeating enemy air defense is not a state secret.

    It just requires a technologically capable military with good ISR and healthly munition stockpiles.

    Destroy radars, launch saturation attacks, and persistence.

    Some specific weapons may have better, or worse, hit rates due to their technological capabilities, or limitations, but that’s not what the strategy ultimately relies on.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      33 minutes ago

      What actually matters here is that the whole US military doctrine has become obsolete because of drones. It’s not just that Iran can find and hit US targets, it’s that they can do it very cheaply while US has to spend expensive and difficult to build interceptors which can’t even hit these kinds of targets effectively. It’s the economics of the whole thing that are defeating the US.

      • limonfiesta@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        27 minutes ago

        I understand the changing dynamics of war unleashed in Ukraine, I’m commenting on the subject of the article you posted.

        The headline makes it sound like it was some mystery that had yet to be solved, or a problem that hadn’t already been figured out.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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          4 minutes ago

          I think if you read the actual article you’ll see that the headline is justified. It explains the actual mechanics of what Iran did, and this shouldn’t be trivialized. While the idea of what to do might not be that complicated, actually implementing it against an adversary like the US is not trivial.