[Lurker]

“Would not be surprised if Praying Mantis 2 were getting ready to kick off, and they’re looking to ward off many salvos of Iranian Scud clones.”

I’d be more concerned about a couple of thousand small drones carrying grenades hitting the petroleum infrastructure myself. Or the water facilities, or electrical grid, or the sewer plants, or...No way you could knock all of them down.

But that’s just me.

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[Zhang Fei]

[I’d be more concerned about a couple of thousand small drones carrying grenades hitting the petroleum infrastructure myself. Or the water facilities, or electrical grid, or the sewer plants, or...No way you could knock all of them down.
But that’s just me.]

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There’s a reason cluster bombs are generally used against troop concentrations rather than infrastructure. To inflict costly and hard to repair damage, you need a big warhead.

[ThunderSleeps]

Maybe. There is a limit to how many drones you can operate in a given area simultaneously. There are only so many distinct radio frequencies that commercial drones and controllers use. At some point they will start interfering with each other. So if you have enough air defense for the big ones, and enough guys with machine guns for massed fire on the small ones...

[bert]

Think Bandar Shapur

It is within about 15 or 20 minutes flying time from Saudi Air space. It can be gone before there is time to react