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- worldnews@lemmy.ml
- military@lemmygrad.ml

Since seeing this image last night of what a Shahed launcher actually looks like, five drones in the kind of truck that delivers to small retail stores, I’m so curious what that means a week or a month from now when even the cheap interceptors are facing ammo shortages. Iran is already scoring hits with them that I wouldn’t have expected so early. Surely they factored a successful decapitation strike into whatever long plan they had when building such extensive underground infrastructure. Will the gulf states or Ukraine become the sacrifice zone if every cargo truck in the middle east potentially suddenly becomes a super accurate base killer?
This feels exactly like Ukraine to me where they just assumed that Russian economy would collapse under sanctions and had no plan B. Seems like they just assumed that Iran was internally unstable, and doing decapitations would make it fall apart. When that didn’t happen, they had no clue what to do next.


