RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: BIG | 🇺🇸🇮🇷🇺🇦‼️‼️ Former CIA Director David Petraeus is warning that the Iran conflict is exposing a dangerous imbalance in modern warfare, with the United States potentially having already consumed roughly half of some of its air and missile-defense interceptor stocks while Iran can keep imposing pressure with far cheaper drones and missiles. Petraeus argued that Washington has major lessons to learn from Ukraine, which operates inexpensive drones on an enormous scale and extracts disproportionate battlefield value from them. He said using extremely expensive interceptors against Iranian drones costing around $50,000 is simply not sustainable over a prol

BIG | 🇺🇸🇮🇷🇺🇦‼️‼️ Former CIA Director David Petraeus is warning that the Iran conflict is exposing a dangerous imbalance in modern warfare, with the United States potentially having already consumed roughly half of some of its air and missile-defense interceptor stocks while Iran can keep imposing pressure with far cheaper drones and missiles.

Petraeus argued that Washington has major lessons to learn from Ukraine, which operates inexpensive drones on an enormous scale and extracts disproportionate battlefield value from them. He said using extremely expensive interceptors against Iranian drones costing around $50,000 is simply not sustainable over a prolonged conflict. Petraeus also pointed to Iran’s ability to threaten U.S. bases and critical Gulf energy infrastructure, highlighting the Iranian strikes that knocked roughly 15–17% of Qatar’s LNG export capacity offline for an estimated three to five years.

The warning goes well beyond Iran. America still possesses overwhelming military power, but a force structured around limited inventories of exquisite and expensive munitions can be strained by an adversary able to generate large numbers of cheaper threats. Ukraine has demonstrated how rapidly mass-produced drones can reshape the economics of warfare, and the Iran campaign is reinforcing the same lesson for Washington. Expanding interceptor production, developing cheaper defensive solutions and dramatically increasing the scale of U.S. unmanned systems are becoming strategic necessities rather than optional modernization projects.

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