Drone technology and warfare make expensive defensive system obsolete

 Israel's position today is a case study for the evolving strategy in global warfare.

While the USA is developing more and more expensive weapons to sell to allies, that costs an arm and a leg for those thinking of still buying F35s, and even the newer version coming out, the Iranians, Hezbollah and Hamas are proving to the world that not all high-tech state of the art equipment, like defense missiles cannot be taken out by low-tech cheap drones and rockets. Russia and China have also been developing radar systems that can track stealth aircrafts. There are people who can come out with new threats and there will be people who will develop a counter for that, just like computer viruses. It is only a matter of time.

The USA and Israel must now have realized that highly expensive defense systems have been rendered ineffective by mass-produced drones and missiles. And who is capable of producing such cheap drones? China and Iran are now able to produce highly sought after civilian drones, that even the Ukrainian military are using. Chinese civilian drones, after modifications, are part of the Ukrainian arsenal. The Ukrainians discarded those USA supplied/made drones in favor of Chinese civilian drones. Just imagine Chinese civilian drones have been proven to be more effective and reliable than USA made expensive military drones, and that tells the whole story.

It is even more telling just to imagine what kind of drones the Chinese PLA must have been using. They are definitely not in any way inferior to those civilian drones sold off the shelves. No wonder the USA had been eyeing DJI hoping to get its hands on the drone maker to uncover its success secret and technology by cooking up accusations of DJI stealing its military drone technology. It makes no sense that DJI would be stealing the USA's outdated drone technology when it is far ahead in that field as proven by the Ukrainian war.

Anonymous

Gaza has been destroyed for good, and Palestinians genocided

 GAZA STRIP: The United Nations said Thursday (May 2) that the post-war reconstruction of Gaza would require an international effort unseen since the aftermath of World War II, estimating it could cost up to US$40 billion....

Much of Gaza has been reduced to a grey landscape of rubble and the United Nations estimated the cost of reconstruction at between US$30 billion and US$40 billion.

"The scale of the destruction is huge and unprecedented... this is a mission that the global community has not dealt with since World War II," UN assistant secretary-general Abdallah al-Dardari told a briefing in the Jordanian capital Amman.  CNA

Just a few comments on the above paragraphs. This would not have happened if the UN got the balls to stop it. Caveat, with the evil Americans complicit in the destruction of Gaza, no one, no country can stop it unless there is a revolt in the UN when the majority of the countries stand up to tell the murderers to stop the genocide.

My second point, it was all the intent of the Americans and the Jews to wipe out Gaza and the Palestinians. Before the genocide and destruction, Blinken went to Egypt telling them to let in 1m Palestinians, if not, the Palestinians would all be bombed to Stone Age, massacred like the Red Indians of America. Egypt saw through the plan of the American and Jews, to evict the Palestinians from Gaza, and to take over their land. Egypt refused to budge. 

Now the world is seeing the horrors committed by the Americans and the Jews against the Palestinians and still cannot do anything about this 21st century Genocide happening right before their eyes....all because the main culprit, the real murderers, are the Americans. And some asses chose not to see, not to know.

And now that the mass murderers have achieved their objective to total destruction and mass murders, they are acting like they want to have peace, calling for a ceasefire. As I have posted earlier, when the evil Americans and the Jews have done what they wanted to the Palestinians, they would then talk about a ceasefire as they have no need to do more bombing and killings. The job is already done.

The formula of the Americans and the Jews is to totally destroy the Arab and Muslim states every now and then, like Iraq, Libya, Syria etc etc so that these destroyed countries would be impoverished for another few decades, becoming broken countries trying to pick themselves up from the ashes, and be no threat to the Israelis.

Would the Arab and Muslim states, and the rest of world see through this devious scheme of the Americans and the Jews? After this story of wars and destruction being repeated over and over again, would they still think and believe the Americans and the Jews are good to them, wanting to help them and live peacefully with them? Remember, from the River of Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea, the land belongs to the Jews. And this has yet to happen, but happening and progressing everyday. Palestine is as good as gone.

If the world can force the Americans and the Jews to have a Palestinian state, China would be tasked to do the rebuilding once again. The Americans destroy, China builds.

PS. The treacherous so called Anglo Saxon mediators are telling the Hamas, released the hostages for 40 days of ceasefire. After that they would resume attacking, bombing and killing them all over again, in greater intensity as there will be no more consideration of harming the hostages.

Americans selling fairy tales to gullible Pinoys

 According to Kevin Walmsley of the site 'Inside China Business' the USA is encouraging the Philippines to set up a nickel supply chain to cut off China's dominance in nickel. The USA will provide financial help while the Philippines will have to set up the refining facilities. How feasible is that project going to be? Burnt to a crust will be the result.

Setting up the refining logistics is not a cheap proposition and takes time and expertise. Even if the Philippines managed to do so, can it compete with China? Already some nickel processing facilities around the world are closing shop due to inability to compete with Chinese manufacturers. And the Philippines is going into this sector or just building castles in the air and feeling good about it.

Like India celebrating the India/Middle East/Europe Corridor with a song and dance upon being announced by Biden. Biden probably already forgotten the whole thing, while the Indians are still hanging on to the fairy tale ending.

Biden had promised many great sounding propositions - US$350 million digital transformation of Africa, US$600 billion global infrastructure projects, India/Middle East/Europe corridor, railroad across the Pacific (how to build a railroad over the ocean I just wonder), US$150 million for ASEAN countries to buy sampans for patrolling the seas around ASEAN countries (more a bribe). All 'Chau Tar' propositions.

If you believe and love fairy tales, Biden is the right person to go to. 

Anonymous

Let the American clowns continue to believe they are ahead of China

 China already left the USA behind in various fields. China has built its own space station and is now operational. The USA still needs Russian rockets to send their astronauts to the ISS. Who is ahead? How did their rockets reached the moon I wonder?

In the clean energy sector, China is already far ahead of the USA, in EVs, solar panels and wind turbine manufacturing. The USA wants China to cut its domination for the USA to catch up.

China is already far ahead of the USA in shipbuilding. This is a fact that not many had noticed or are aware of, and still thinking that the Japanese and South Koreans are still dominating the sector.

Apart from the above, what else had China overtaken the USA? In the field of patents, China trumps the USA. Huawei holds patents in telecommunication that other telecommunication giants have to pay patent rights to use. China is on par with the USA in super computers. China's infrastructures put the USA in shame. China high speed rail construction is so far ahead of the USA, it puts the USA in the shade.

Chinese universities are rising up the ranks in the world and attracting students from all over, with tuition fees and accommodation on campus so cheap that it is putting some USA universities out of business or facing financial problems. Moreover, the influx of English-speaking professors from USA universities are allowing Chinese universities to conduct courses in English, a blessing in disguise again for China arising from the USA crackdown on Chinese academics and researchers.

China is thankful that the USA cannot find good people, with good thinking skills and strategic mindset to pull the USA out of its quagmire. China is just content to let the USA continue using their outdated playbook of pulling others down while putting itself in stagnation.

Yes, China should be thankful to the USA for all the help.

Anonymous

Iranian attack on Israel ...overcapacity. Israel's brutal and savage bombing and killing of Palestinians not over capacity?

 The recent retaliation by Iran against Israel's unprovoked attack on the Iranian Embassy in Syria did a very important eye-opening realization for countries in the Middle East. That it led to the killing of the myth about Israel's age old 'Iron Dome' invincibility is not lost on Iran and Hezbollah, least of all Hamas.

In the past, no one thought that using overwhelming number of drones and missiles will be able to cripple the Iron Dome's defense capabilities. Iran probably learnt the tactic much earlier, a year a two earlier, when Lebanese and Hezbollah were firing cheap rockets into Israel to elicit Israel to fire their very expensive defense missiles in response. How many of such defense missiles does Israel have actually? And how costly and affordable will such an attack be for Israel, if it happens periodically?

The fact that David Cameron was hyping up the issue of Iran firing too many drones and missiles against Israel, was indeed telling. It may be an over-reaction by Iran, a moot point, as that was just what Israel had done in Gaza in response to the October 7th Hamas attack. Did the UK or the West say anything about Israel's over-reaction in Gaza?

David Cameron had probably realized that Iran had punctured Israel's 'Iron Dome' myth for good with its more than 300 drones and missiles to prove an important point.

Anonymous