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It's important to separate the short range quadcopters that are easily built in small workshops from the long distance winged drones that can weigh several hund
by KK7NIL 7mo ago
It's important to separate the short range quadcopters that are easily built in small workshops from the long distance winged drones that can weigh several hundred pounds (like the Shahed drones).
The latter, as they're built by Russia currently, require a decent size facility to build en mass.
It's not the kind of thing Hamas could build in their tunnel system, for example.
I agree with your second point that interceptors will become depleted though and this is a serious problem.
- verdverm 7mo agoUkraine is building long range drones as well. Look to the strike stats inside Russia, many well over 1000km. The IRGC is significantly more resourced than Hamas, building enough to fire off 100s a week should be no issue for them. They can build ballistic missiles, they twice struck an oil refinery in Bahrain today: https://bsky.app/profile/elhamfakhro.bsky.social/post/3mgd5oawr6s22 https://bsky.app/profile/elhamfakhro.bsky.social/post/3mgd5o...
- KK7NIL 7mo agoI agree, it would be hard to stop Iran from producing a significant number of long range drones (hard to stop it from getting the parts it needs when it route them through the Stans or the Caspian sea).
- m4rtink 7mo agoNote that neither Ukraine or Russia have air supperiority. It would be much harder for IRGC to build and launch hundreds of drones with basically predators stalking the sky & strikes from manned jets availalbe on short order.