Posted on 07/31/2025 6:38:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Kremlin is building its way toward a reality where it can soon launch 2,000 Shahed one-way attack drones in one night, according to two recent Western assessments.
Maj. Gen. Christian Freuding, the German defense ministry's commander of planning and command staff, said in a Bundeswehr interview aired on Saturday that Russia was "striving to further increase production capacity" of its Shaheds.
"They want to expand the drone attacks we just talked about," Freuding said. "The ambition is to be able to deploy 2,000 drones simultaneously."
"We need to consider intelligent countermeasures," he added.
In a separate assessment on Sunday, the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, wrote that Russia's per-night use of Shahed drones increased by 31% each month in June and July.
"ISW assesses that Russia may be able to launch up to 2,000 drones in one night by November 2025, should this current growth trend in drone usage continue," its analysts wrote.
However, they added that Russia likely wouldn't be able to consistently sustain 2,000 drone launches per day.
Still, such capacity would be a stark jump from the fall of 2024, when Russia was launching roughly 2,000 drones a month at Ukraine.
Shaheds are long-range Iranian exploding drones with estimated ranges of 600 to 1,200 miles, depending on the design. This year, Russia has continually increased the number of Shaheds and decoy drones it launches a night at Ukraine, recently peaking at 728 uncrewed aerial vehicles in one salvo earlier this month.
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Some night in the near future that drone attack will happen here.
You can read the full article at AOL without that pesky paywall. You can often find free sites by searching for the article title (which is what I did).
https://www.aol.com/news/russia-making-many-iranian-shahed-065412646.html
I'm sure that it's Reagan's fault, Bush's fault, Halliburton's fault, Trump's fault, Ukraine's fault....or something.
And built by Antifa leftist groups under command of Democrats.
Remember when they told us Russia was expending all its best weapons and would have nothing left?
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“Maj. Gen. Christian Freuding, the German defense ministry’s commander of planning and command staff”
Dude looks like the grandson of Joseph Goebbels and likely the same mindset.
“Some night in the near future that drone attack will happen here.”
...and when we activate our air defenses, we’ll find they were all sent to Ukraine (or at least a hell of a lot of them).
About 5% to 15% survive Ukrainian defenses.
That’s 100 to 300, at about 180 pounds(?) of explosives each.
“Remember when they told us Russia was expending all its best weapons and would have nothing left?”
That’s no longer operative. What’s happening now is that Germany’s is getting ready to declare war on Russia again, in several years, at least based on what’s being said in Berlin, practically on a daily basis.
So times are different, now.
Yep, the U.S. Intel fed BS to western MSM for three years. Some of us didn’t buy into their BS, the sad fact is most Americans did, Ukie flags in Congress, Russia is losing, Russia is collapsing, Vlad has cancer, the Russian people are revolting, and on and on….Fools….and now the belief Trump will end the war…
…fact is the war ends when Vlad achieves his stated goals…which he is nearing.
Suck it up Ukie war cheerleaders, you were deceived so very, very easily.
I'm just saying.
We've had multiple drone incursions here in the U.S. since 2019, such as the 17 consecutive nights of drone swarms over Langley AFB in December 2023 and the recent New Jersey drone sightings, near where Picatinny Arsenal is located.
General Glen VanHerck and General Gregory Guillot said on 60 Minutes that we do not have the ability to detect and track drones at low altitude.
Senator Roger Wicker said there's a perception that this is "Fortress America" and no one is going to attack our homeland, but that assumption is wrong.
Not long ago, I saw on the news that Iran released a statement saying that a drone could strike President Trump at Mar a Lago while he's sunbathing.
We're due for an attack on our shores if the people in charge don't wake up.
A lot of the manufacturing is outsourced to China, with final assembly inside Russia.
We already had a drone attack here...Sleep criminal Joe was “in office” for 4 years.
We already had a drone attack here...Sleepy criminal Joe was “in office” for 4 years.
It appears that we should test our iron Dome theory on Ukraine.
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