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Decker Eveleth said, “several of the missiles landed near hangers housing Israeli F-35 stealth fighter jets, with one possible direct hit.”

Samuel Bendett said, “the apparent loss of the S-70 a "significant win" for Western intelligence given that it has been Moscow's flagship drone project for more than a decade.”

Decker Eveleth said, “It seems the strike on Mossad headquarters in Glilot was the least successful. We only saw two impacts, and the one impact that landed even remotely near the headquarters building did so about 520 meters away from the building itself.”

Decker Eveleth said, “Airbases are hard targets, and the sort of target that likely won’t produce many casualties. Iran could choose a different target – say, a densely packed IDF ground forces base, or a target within a civilian area – and a missile strike there would produce a large number of [casualties].

Decker Eveleth said, "This was indeed a straightforward overwhelm of Israeli missile defence. Israeli defence sites are not safe from Iranian attack, and if Iran so chose, they could choose a target that would be sure to generate Israeli military casualties.”

Decker Eveleth said, “these reveal “at least 33 likely impact craters, with likely more impacts currently obscured by clouds.” The total number of impacts is therefore probably closer to 40.”

Samuel Bendett said, "Drone on drone is a new development."

Bryce Peterson said, “But in prisons and jails, where staff aren’t armed and work in a more controlled environment, officials are still warming up to the idea that the devices might be worth the cost.”

Decker Eveleth explained, “Generally, the [People's Liberation Army Rocket Force] tests ICBMs from the interior of the country, out in the northern desert shooting east to werst. This is satisfactory for most system tests (many missile tests are actually conducted to test a specific subsystem). The problem is that this forces you to use a lofted trajectory.”

Joshua Tallis said, "it would be wrong to simply count Chinese ships and U.S. ships and then assume that one country had the advantage over the other. The correct way to understand the U.S. Navy's ability to counter that threat is to understand the U.S. Navy in the context of this much bigger joint warfighting ecosystem.”

Samuel Bendett said, “Russian volunteers, as well as state and affiliated manufacturers, had significantly ramped up the development of FPV drones and were likely handing off tens of thousands of FPVs to the Russian military each month.”

Decker Eveleth noted, “’The problem is that this forces you to use a lofted trajectory’ because the ‘distance from the ICBM test site to the target ranges is around 2000-3000 kilometers.’"

Samuel Bendett said, “Beijing would be hesitant to open itself up to international sanctions for helping Moscow's war machine, and that more information was needed to establish that China was playing host to production of Russian military drones.”

Steven Wills said, “The number of civilian mariners freed up for that new construction by moving about 12 expeditionary fast transports, or EFPs, and five other ships to inactive status likely would be insufficient.”

Elizabeth Wishnick said, “I don’t know that you are going to see Russian planes supporting a Chinese attack on Taiwan, for example, or in a conflict with the Philippines are Russian vessels are going to support Chinese ones? I doubt it.”

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro’s Chief of Staff Mr. Christopher Diaz delivered remarks at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) Maritime Economic Deterrence Executive Council (MEDEC) to discuss the importance of the initiative at Arlington, Virginia, Sept. 17, 2024.