🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 During a private briefing at the Pentagon this week, U.S. military officials reportedly admitted something the war has already shown clearly: American and Israeli air-defense systems are struggling to effectively stop Iran’s Shahed‑136 drones.
These drones cost around $20,000, yet they often force defenders to launch expensive interceptors like the Patriot Missile System or Iron Dome missiles that cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. This creates a huge imbalance where cheap drones are draining very costly defensive weapons.
In simple terms, the world’s most advanced military systems are being forced to repeatedly shoot down low-cost drones, creating a financial and logistical disadvantage. The U.S. is using valuable interceptor missiles to defend multiple countries at the same time against a weapon that Iran can produce in massive numbers. These drones require no pilot, no runway, and minimal infrastructure, yet they still create serious pressure on expensive defense systems.
And this situation is happening before even considering more advanced weapons like the Fattah‑2. Hypersonic missiles travel at extreme speeds and can maneuver in ways that current systems such as THAAD or Patriot batteries are not designed to reliably intercept, especially in the final phase of flight.
According to the claim, U.S. defense officials were already aware of these challenges even before the first strikes began on February 28.$CHZ $ADA #USAvsIran
