Saturday, September 13, 2025

U.S. Needs To Be Building Tens Of Thousands Of Shahed-136 Clones Right Now

The U.S. military's lack of urgency when it comes to building long-range one-way attack munitions at huge scale has been absurd and dangerous. - Tyler Rogoway
For many years, I have highlighted in detail the threat posed by lower-end drones, ranging from off-the-shelf and standard remote-controlled types to short-range First Person View (FPV) types to much longer-range, but comparatively inexpensive one-way attack munitions that blur the lines between cruise missiles and unmanned aerial systems. 
  • Combined, these weapons represent a vast and truly game-changing asymmetric threat that the Pentagon has long overlooked. 
  • Now the Department of Defense (DoD) is desperately trying to play catch-up at a time when the evolution of these systems is fast outpacing countermeasures to them. 
  • This massive failure in vision could be heavily paid for in blood if a major conflict were to erupt between the U.S. and a capable adversary...

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