Ryan McBeth
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 28 Feb
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You'll be fine.
They have some incredible drone capabilities for a country of their tech level.
They've really kind of drilled down into the tech tree when it comes to drones.
The Shahed 136, fantastic piece of equipment.
Only problem is it's not really guided.
So once you set that target up on the Shahed, you let it go.
It's going to go to that target, but it can't necessarily seek targets on its own.
So if you thought, well, we can fire, but we can blanket the Sea of America, formerly known as the Arabian Sea, we can blanket that with drones.
Well, those drones can't really talk to each other and say, hey, I found a target.
And meanwhile, as it's doing that, we're shooting them down because we have AWACS aircraft, specifically the E-2 Hawkeye, which is a Navy aircraft that loiters above the carrier strike group.
And it uses a very powerful radar to find targets.
So the exact range is classified, but Wikipedia range, I believe, is around 400 nautical miles or so.
So we're detecting these things as they come in, 400 nautical miles.
These things are extremely slow.
You always have to, you do an equation whenever you manufacture any kind of weapon system, missile, a drone, about a third goes to the actual structure and engine, about a third goes to fuel, and about a third goes to warhead.
If you want more warhead, you gotta get less fuel.
If you want more fuel, there's less warhead, right?
So in a drone case like the Shahed 136, you mightn't be able to throw them all out at sea, but we're going to detect them coming.
And the last time Iran used Shahed drones against Israel, we knew they were coming for about 10 hours.
In fact, I was on Newsmax.
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