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Posted on 03/31/2026 7:09:04 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Not an entertainer or talk show celebrity, Postol has banks of lecture slides showing nuke-war damage, missiles & drones in eye-glazing technical detail. Take-away: if a cheap but accurate drone hits your apartment even with a reinforced safe-room, the building will collapse, so you'd better huddle in a shelter. But the destruction of radars means you have no warning. Your life is completely disrupted.
While U.S. Defense Industries (Lockheed-Martin, General Dynamics,TRW, etc.) have been getting fat pedalling us decades of useless, expensive whiz-bang systems that never worked but make fantastic Congressional pork: lean-mean Ukrainians, Russians, Chinese & Iranians have been furiously busy making highly lethal, extremely advanced, bare bones economical weapons from cheap off the shelf components.
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So, Iran is now winning the war according to this guy?
The Ukrainians have gotten very good at shooting down drones.
“U.S. vs. Russian aircraft comparason:”
We have air supremacy over Iran.
Russia is afraid to fly over Ukraine.
“’Iran’s Missiles & Drones Were Underestimated’”
Damn good thing we found out now. Think they would be in 4-5 years at the rate they were going
The only thing worthy and likely correct in the report is that the U.S. DID likely underestimate HOW MANY missiles and drones Iran had.
The fact of the matter is that all that simplicity does come with a cost in capability, especially aircraft.
The US has simply under-invested in AD for decades, assuming its aircraft would clear the skies, and has dragged its feet in developing anything to meet the cheap drone threat despite four years of the Ukraine war showing how much of a threat that is.
BTW, Postol has been a leftist attack dog on anything resembling missile defense for decades. He has argued repeatedly that what Israel has already achieved with Iron Dome would be impossible.
“Damn good thing we found out now.”
That is my thought also, and we’ll hopefully take out most of them.
I think after the formal battle is over, aircraft, hopefully not ours, will continue to destroy their military sites.
“While U.S. Defense Industries (Lockheed-Martin, General Dynamics,TRW, etc.) have been getting fat pedalling us decades of useless, expensive whiz-bang systems that never worked “
The author is an idiot, as are those who give him credence.
We could also consider whether our CUAS abilities have been overestimated, under developed or in need of informed evolution/maturation.
Drones of unknown origin have been overflying US defense installations since the end of the Biden administration and a massive Chinese spy balloon that traversed the heartland unmolested by the Biden regime, was supposedly not detected by the US military until civilians reported it to authorities. While the US now routinely shoots down ballistic missiles, something the Democrats said was impossible during the Reagan administration, it would seem that drones and even balloons have been underestimated as a threat.
Reconnaissance by fire!
No, Wait! Wait!
More lousy jobs by the weaponized CIA and the lousy slobs working for Islam in the “media”.
I agree. Say what you will, but the Iranians, and anyone else on the planet for that matter, would trade their arms for ours in a heartbeat.
“The only thing worthy and likely correct in the report is that the U.S. DID likely underestimate HOW MANY missiles and drones Iran had.”
I have to agree with you on that.
Garland Nixon and I were joined on stage at Moscow’s upscale 19/72 Cigar Lounge by noted Soviet/Russian historian Andrei Fursov and Elena Ponomareva, a professor of International Relations at MGIMO, Russia’s premier foreign policy university, for an evening of “cigar diplomacy”.
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