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Send in kash patel. He’ll protect them!

Because these are stupid people.

No way!! Guess I'm a world leading military analyst? Cuz I've known this since the Russian invasion of Ukraine became "Drone Wars IRL", featuring Iranian drone tech. Our systems were designed and deployed prior to availabilty of cheap remote control drones. Morons Are Governing America.

Wadda ya know! "A bigger problem than anticipated"!!!

They’re destroying Iranian ships 1200 miles out in International waters… another War Crime. Hogsbreath is wracking up the years in prison quickly. Just have to wonder what the world would have said to Hitler if he had pardoned Goebbels, Himmler, and every commandant of concentration camps.

They wanted to get rid of the A-10s, wart hogs, but I believe the usaf fought to keep the ones that can fly still flying.

😡

His mother finds him repulsive and wrote him a letter telling him so. When your own mother despises you….

A10s were kept and upgraded. Also they're still too fast for drones. No need to use 30mm ammo at 65 rounds per second on them. That would be a really dumb idea. Or develop counter drones that are cheaper.

Trump rather that America soilders and civilians were killed then help Ukraine and learn about the drones. He's to busy kissing Putin's ass to worry about the destruction.

Oopsies. They are so friggin incompetent.

That’s unintended consequence #112.5 for the record

Yea…ask the Russians…fucking morons.

47 and his war hawks playing checkers instead of chess…again.

www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/belt...

Seems vaguely familiar…

Skyraider’s Forever

Zelenskyy knows how to do it. He has a card for you.

Breaking: US military think tank drones on about problems.

Drones seem to be standard in modern warfare especially when you look at places like Ukraine. For us not to expect this is a huge failure in itelligence. Future wars will be unmanned and arial.

If there were any experienced and intelligent analysts and personnel remaining they would have realized and planned for this before hand as a future possibility in case of war. They should have know this months ago.

You can keep the A-10s. If I call in an air-strike I don't plan on being the victim. 😬

Rumsfeld stated during Irag war you use what you have So what’s Hegseth phrase News should not report the bad, the ugly & only the good?

I’m guessing the Ukrainians could be a very valuable help in this regard, both for their intimate knowledge of the Shahed drones and their own air defence drones manufacturing capabilities. But they’re too busy fighting a war that has been prolonged by the Krasnov administration.

Gee, Drones. Pitty there's no war, currently raging, where drones have shown to change the way battle is waged to everyone on the planet. I have to imagine their career military know so how can the admin now know. A case of "I was in the infantry, don't lecture me!"?

But all of the propaganda we made for the hoopleheads but started to believe ourselves after a decade plus of it told us that we were an invincible force that could pulverize anyone without push back in days--and in spite of the 20 year quagmire of Afghanistan, we believed it!

A-10s are a great idea if the goal is to maximize American casualties lmao

I think they did dust of some A-10s for this. Although for anti-drone, they might need a separate gun pod since using a 30mm avenger likely isn't accurate enough.

A-10's are heavily romanticized team killing machines, and if your solution is to use incredibly expensive aviation to stop incredibly cheap drones, you're doing war wrong and you probably don't have the insights you think you do.

The perfect ground support system for killing British soldiers and stealing the valor of the F-111

A-10’s are perfect for two missions: - Dying after getting a more or less even value trade with Soviet tanks that never rolled over the European plains - being significantly worse than the Aardvark at the same mission while causing a lot more blue on blue kills. Neither is useful in 2026.

www.ft.com/content/d077...

Shahed drones have been used in Ukraine for quite some time. The problems dealing with them where long known, if the US would have been bothered to look.

“Bigger problems than anticipated?”Hmm…who could seen this coming I wonder? Maybe with much planning and anticipating all scenarios,they may have been able to see these unanticipated events?Nah!Who the fuck am I kidding,these guys?Anticipating problems?😂🤣😂🤣Sec. of War/Warfighters but it’s not a War?

These asshats didn’t anticipate anything but a 12 hour news cycle.

Has no one in the Pentagon been paying attention to what has been happening in Ukraine?

The US is run by murderous theocrats and their cheerleaders.

To cameras: we're winning, punching them while they're down, maximum authority, bold and precise. To Congress in a closed room: bigger problem than anticipated, can't intercept them all, major challenge.

i think Ukraine is pretty good at handling those

Gawd these numbnut grifters need to go.

So sad, and Ukraine has been dealing with these for four years. Trump expert team cry after 4 days. 😹😹😹

Iran's greatest offensive asset is Pete Hegseth.

Omg this is so insane

For this bunch, anything is a bigger problem than anticipated. These people don't and can't plan. Purely reactionary not proactive. Poke and hope. "We'll see in two weeks".

You can’t anticipate anything correctly when you are an uneducated, inexperienced, unserious, fucking frat bro.

We'd better look to what Ukraine is doing and Germany had a very good weapons system.

Bigger problem tha anticipated? Imagine that

If they had any smarts, they would use what the Ukrainians have been doing and fighting drones with drones, but that would be too logical

The jokes and memes write themselves these days.

Or your country could just not bomb other places in the first place, that’s also an option

SOLDIER'S LIVES MATTER

To quote the bard, “Doh!”

Did these incompetent grifters think they were dealing with 3rd graders here? Iran is no joke, and they will prove to be a formidable opponent.

Everything they do is so deceitful

are they not watching Ukraine????!!!

Wait for it.... ...This is going to be part of our Regime's justification for attacking them in the first place. 'See I told you so, they have amassed weapons and are using them to attack our bases and consulates...'

They are complete morons and just ignored the current war that's been in their face for four years ffs

It's almost like we started a war without being prepared.

And helping Ukraine. Trump is to busy kissing Putin's ass to learn or help Ukraine.

Asking your hommies how they deal with problems is gay. Amwrica isnt gay bro. -Hegseth (probably)

I grew up with A-10s at the base my dad worked at in East Granby, CT. They now fly stupid C-130s out of there.

"...posing a bigger problem than anticipated..." Fuck me...

Or maybe talk to the Ukrainians who have been fighting these for 4 years!

Why were they not anticipated? Maybe because Kegsbreath is incompetent?

Gee, if only we could’ve arranged some sort of quid pro quo with a group that has extensive experience with these particular drones… Who sees them daily. Lives under their constant threat. Knows the best tactics. And has a blue/yellow flag 🇺🇦 If only.

Now can you imagine if the US is unable to stop drones, how the UKRAINIANS 🇺🇦 are dealing with russian drones?

How did they not know of their capabilities?

How did they not know of their capabilities?

Did A-10s have air-to-air fire capability? I thought they were ground gunners.

Or hear me out, we don't go to war for no reason, especially with the DOD a man child who acts like a 12 year old playing Call of Duty

The frustrating thing is we already know we need to focus on cheaper interceptors from fighting Iranian drones specifically. Though the F-15E is actually already very good at it, including via gun kills. The A-10 is best suited for being in museums, not air-to-air drone interceptions.

Meaning we didn't think about it.

A-10s were so good. Maybe we can make one with a laser now.

Is he saying fox News didn't train him well enough? Ha

Iranian drones? In Iran? Inconceivable!

It's not just the low speed but the size and composition. A-10s are designed to hit mostly stationary but really big and really tough targets moving along the ground. It would be like trying to shoot a fly out of the air with a pellet gun. What we REALLY need are air-to-air interceptor drones.

Is this true, or are they setting the stage for asking Congress for more $$$ for war…

Gee, I wonder who has a lot of experience with combatting Iranian drones. Could it be .. UKRAINE?

That buzzing sound inside the hornets nest - butterflies? Give it a kick then

Cool story bro. First, we didn’t get rid of them (started to, stopped years ago because no replacement could be found) and second A-10 warthogs have been downing drones in the Middle East since October using APKWS II rockets. www.twz.com/air/a-10-war...

Dumbasses turned down President Zelenskyy's offer to help with drone warfare...as Ukraine is now the expert at that and has been designing and producing ever new models and attacking Russian infrastructure successfully. Trump said no, so more American soldiers and aircraft will be destroyed.

Amateurs! Idiots!

And their drones cost nothing in comparison to produce

It's like they haven't even been paying attention for the last four years as the cutting edge of both aerial and ground warfare has evolved into something entirely new.

They had the opportunity to talk with Zelensky and ask his help.The Ukrainian military are the most experienced experts on this terrain of warfare!But no they try to shoot a couple of drones with incredibly expensive patriots and so on.try a war on the ground.then you will have a deadly problem!

Why not deploy our anti-drone technology to Iran? So good, that it was able to bag a party balloon and one of our own drones.

A10s would be nice as long as you are over water I guess. But it would suck to be the people on the ground behind the target if you are over land...

They have incompetent idiots running our military after firing all of our generals. 😒

THAN ANTICIPATED Gee if only there was some other war using thousands of shaheds they could have analyzed What a bunch of complete fucking morons

Talk about hubris and arrogance. These people are incapable of learning. Ukraine, our ally, that this regime has been using as a punching bag, has been downing missiles & shaheds nightly for 4+ years. Sometimes with waves in the hundreds, at a 95% kill rate. Who holds the cards now?

Drones not nuclear weapons? Hmmm

That doesn't track with Hegseth's testosterone fueled rants.

The Secretary of the Liquor Cabinet is in charge.

That's because there was zero thought behind this invasion Trump did it because he had a feeling. The amount of damage that Trump has done in one year boggles my mind.

I guess maybe they should've listened to and help Ukraine defeat those drone sine they are provided to Russia by the the Iranian regime. We would've had practice and saved some Ukrainian lives. Unfortunately, Trump is to busy kissing Putin's ass and destroying everything.

The funny part is how drones are moving modern air combat back to WWII dynamics (slow propeller aircraft with guns and gravity munitions). Modern fighters cannot handle these easily as they have to fly fast or stall/crash.

How is the Trump boys drone defense department business going?

Got any defense systems left to protect US soil, idiots? You better with a 900 billion budget.

No…tell me it isn’t so. How to say we didn’t plan this war without saying we didn’t plan this war.

Pete Hegseth is posing to be a bigger problem than expected.

You Can't fix stupid...😂

If only there were a country who has huge, current experience with bringing down drones that could advise and supply the technology....

These people aren't the learnin' type.

I'd forgotten that amid all the "flood the zone" bullshit from this regime. Thanks for the reminder.

It's almost like we didn't know they had a ton of these drones. I mean, they have been sending them to Russia for several years!

Forrest Gump could outhink this moron.

They could have just asked Ukraine

I mean anyone even remotely paying attention to the war in Ukraine would have been able to tell you this would be a problem right?

I've seen what an A-10 can do to a tank. Convinced me that being a tank troop was not on my Christmas list.

Umm they have a top speed of 600 km/h...

Fucking idiots.

$1M+ patriot to kinda sorta maybe shoot down a $10K drone = DOGE is on the job

They've got a few of those crop duster conversions on hand, but they might be too slow & are maximized for ground attack. The Ukrainians have had some luck with Mi28 Skytrucks with door mounted miniguns, but we gave those all away. Maybe A29s will work but don't know how many we have.

It's almost like it's a completely new development. Just out of the blue.

A loitering helicopter is a target for a drone swarm, not a defense against one.

I guess the US wasn’t paying attention the last 4 years to that European country we promised to protect when the gave up their nuclear weapons 🥺

As said before, £10 says Iran manages to knobble a US feck-off expensive aircraft carrier.

And confident speeches. Lol

I mean the brits did this thing with lasers. As did the US Navy. Sounds like the DOD is to bust kissing ass for money than to apply working technologies on the cheap. And kiss some serious ass.

How abt a trade: Tomahawks to UKR in exchange for anti-drone defense from UKR?