Darryl Cooper
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5,155 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Sep
Darryl Cooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, assuming everything's fine, that one missile sort of leaks through.
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and like we got a cruise missile to shoot down.
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Okay, great.
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But if we're talking about like a real exchange, nobody had any illusions except for the fact that, you know, um they were gonna they were gonna go down with the ship.
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I mean, that's just it's how everybody felt about it.
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Everybody just kind of knew that.
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And
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You know, it just it makes sense when you think about it, right?
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Because in those cases, I mean the attacker has all of the initiative.
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They have um a basic idea of how many, like of what your intercept capacity is in terms of, you know, the trackload of your radar to um you know how many uh engagements your system can handle at any given moment because it's not that many, you know, to how many
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Missiles you have uh that that can defend against various uh incoming on on a platform.
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Like they know all these things or they have some basic idea of it.
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And uh it just gives them all the advantages.
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And so we we have these hyper, hyper complex, expensive systems that really in a way look like they're built for like 20th century peer-to-peer combat, when really what they're built for is
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is to roll into somebody who can't shoot back at all.
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And occasionally if like they happen to get a you know a nineteen seventy-five uh you know cruise missile on the black market and they load it up into a you know a shipping container on a boat and fire it at us, that maybe we could take that out.
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That's really what the what the systems are practically designed for.
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Yeah, d I've I've told Scott I've spent entire six month deployments on Arleigh Burke class, top of the line state of the art air defense ships, spent an entire six month deployment chasing DAOs off the co off the Horn of Africa, uh, you know, who are who are smuggling small amounts of hashish into Yemen or something.
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It's just an insane misallocation of resources.
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I mean
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