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they're taking a page from ukraine on asymmetric warfare and just following the playbook russia and ukraine have been escalating with drone warfare. and iran can get fiber optic from china just like russia.

this is something people aren't understanding, the disparity in costs - sure western customers can shoot patriots at incoming, but if it's a $12k shaheed the cost disparity is nosebleed, but you can't NOT shoot at incoming because the costs of targets on the ground is also nosebleed expensive.

Fuck, iran bagged an E3 sentry awacs on the ground! Millions of dollars of STRATEGICALLY valuable asset, nuked on a fucking tarmac, because some dumbfuck decided to follow Israel into this shitshow.

DEW weapons are always 'just about to be deployed' to change the situation.

It's never as simple as generating a directed pulse (regardless of the wavelength) if you don't acquire the target at range, and, environmental conditions are compatible with your weapon system.

I think it'll get there, but would discourage anyone from believing it's around the corner until we see shaheeds melting in the video feeds.

ooooor how about small arms strapped to the back of some trucks and a very basic radar to tell them all where about the drones are? It seems to work for Ukraine, small cheap drones call for cheap mobile units. No need to bring freakin lazers into this, rifle caliber rounds work just fine and are even cheaper then a lazer system. As an added bonus small arms on the back of trucks are super mobile and can go to the place the drones are attacking, unlike a lazer that is not very portable and oh yeah needs a lot of power to run it. For ships? Sure, makes some sense. For basic civilian infrastructure defense? Ehhhhhh seems really silly.

The iron dome being made for the last war is correct, however as in the "final" war not "previous" war. The reason they don't work is here is that they (like patriot, etc.) are built to stop very big very pricey ordnance up to and including world changing strategic missiles. We have seen these systems do great work in places like Ukraine and in small attacks in the past (think of the propane bottle rocket attacks). The issue is that the design clearly did not anticipate the current style of warfare, where it is drastically higher volume and intensity then those small nuisance attacks in the past but also using the cheapest devices to wage a war of attrition. In some places you see a hybrid defense using small cheap arms (insert Vietnam's solution) and these "final" war style air defense missile systems. These places are at least thinking about the current reality, unlike what we see in that video where it is likely that iron dome battery simply had 1 less interceptor then there were drones and had zero backup to the system.

That's the problem with religion.

In theory it's quite good most religions tell you to be nice and kind to each other, the problem is if you break those rules nothing actually happens to you, no God comes down from the heavens and strikes you down with righteous lightning. In fact not only does nothing happen to you but the establishment set up to promote the religion now protects you from the consequences of you breaking the religions own rules.

Might as well just become an investment banker, at least they don't pretend to have rules.

I’m convinced we are in WWIII,

the preamble perhaps. the conflict that sets the stage.

fml, the idea that putin/bibi/trump ally so closely in their desire to destroy their own countries, and xi is like: let's make more terawatts of solar power and help cuba - the world is stranger and darker every day.

ebola may finally hit globally, thanks to stupid cuts at cdc/who/usaid

and then there's taiwan... just sitting there, all tempting, and the US having expended tremendous amounts of our arsenal for the iranian folly.... gee whiz...

We absolutely are and have been for a while. People will catch up to reality one day.

I’m convinced we are in WWIII

I've heard people speculate that it's more like WW5 or 6, depending on how you want to count global conflicts between superpowers.

But from the US perspective, we're a far cry from the kind of Total War we engaged in during the 40s.

This war only feels existential if you're on the receiving end.