Noel King

Like if you're if you're going to roll around chanting death to America.

So that was the scene chanting death to Israel, death to America in the Iranian parliament.

Then you need to be prepared for the United States and the region to maybe have some questions.

So Iran fought a war against Iraq in the 1980s.

Iran has been in continual tussles, essentially, at a smaller scale with various neighbors over the years.

And so Iran built up a pretty extensive military arsenal, like not as fancy as the United States, not anywhere near.

as good as the United States or Israel.

But Iran, in some ways, because they had to, was a pioneer in developing these low-cost, long-range, precise mass weapons that they then shared with Russia.

And Russia's used tens of thousands of them now, hundreds of thousands against the Ukrainians.

Is there a way for the U.S.

to defend against these Iranian drones without spending so much money?

Absolutely.

The U.S.

has options.

It's just going to take some time to get there.

Another country where necessity has been the mother of invention has been Ukraine, facing down the Russian invaders now for four years.

So that is how you stop an Iranian drone.

That's the Ukrainian-made Sting interceptor drone that flies over 300 kilometers per hour.

That's a

And because Ukraine is the victim of dozens to hundreds of launches of these Shahids almost every day, Ukraine has pioneered lower-cost air defense systems, like using even less expensive drones, for example, to take out those $35,000 drones.