Gordon Chang
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524 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 May
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And then obviously there's the long range strikes.
These are the ones that you're going to see most in the headlines.
Obviously, the Russians conduct these just about every night against even as deep as Western Ukraine.
And then, as I think you're starting to mention, the Ukrainians are really upping their long range strike campaign as well.
And so to kind of talk about you mentioned the Middle Eastern customers that Ukraine has recently gained.
No one on this planet really has the expertise that Ukraine has.
They are combating, again, just about every single night, hundreds of drones.
This is something that I think a lot of Western countries can't really think about trying how to combat that right now.
And the Ukrainians have really mastered that.
They have a very intricate, multilayered air defense system and they have a very intricate kind of infrastructure.
reconnaissance and warning system in place to kind of figure out where these drones are coming from, where they're heading.
And so this kind of multilayered air defense system, it's not only going to be a traditional air defense systems, obviously the Patriot systems we hear so much about, as well as other systems, but also mobile fire groups.
So these are the groups of Ukrainians really just in a pickup truck.
that are out searching for these Shahed drones and shooting them down.
And then obviously now the Ukrainian interceptor drone program is really famous.
And this is what a lot of the Middle Eastern countries are very interested in, as well as the United States and other Western states.
And so I think the Middle East conflict, I think, was really opened the eyes for a lot of people to the threat, the scale of the threat that Ukraine faces, because the scale is very different to what the U.S.
partners and allies in the Middle East are facing against the Iranian Shahid threat compared to what the Ukrainians are facing against the Russians, both in terms of the scale, the number of drones that the Russians versus the Iranians are launching.
And also the quality of these drones, the Russians have spent the last few years really adapting and modernizing these Shahed drones that Iran originally gave to them many years ago.
And the Russians, again, have just really modernized them.
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