Asked whether carrier aircraft are flying air defense, Bryan explains the cheap fix the Navy found for one-way attack drones: laser-guided rockets fired from planes, rather than expensive interceptor missiles.
…operations. Yeah. And partly because these, a lot of these shipping companies are state-owned, right? So you've got the shipping company that's moving oil from Kuwait out. And a lot of cases is the shift is a state-owned shipping company ship. So they're going to be, they're going to go no matter
what. Yeah, I mean, I guess my only question kind of on that is, are the aircraft on the aircraft carriers, are there at least some of them that are running like DCA missions? Or are they just on call to launch?
Yeah, good point. Yeah, some of them are doing DC. Missions, right? Because the Navy's found that the best way to shoot down the Shaheds or the Garons if the Iranians start using those is airplanes. And they are now equipping them with APKWS. So they've got these laser-guided rockets that the army uses on helicopters to shoot whatever stuff on the ground. They found that those are really good for shooting down these drones, like the Shahed-type drones. So that ends up being, so yeah, they're doing DCA missions to support drone defense because they will launch drones. It's just you get a lot of warning time because they're far enough from shore where it's going to take an hour plus two hours to get to you. So you can use the airplanes to shoot those down or helicopters, right? So the destroyers will launch their helicopters and they'll shoot down drones with the helicopter as well. But
Brian, I mean, there's got to be some tipping point, right? Like if you have the Russian thousand drone flotilla or something.
Right. Yeah. So if they launch like a like the Russians do against Ukraine, one of these thousand drone sorties where a salvo is coming across and they're smart about how they sequence it so that you're going to overrun the defenses, then yeah, you get, you could get overwhelmed. And I think the…
Yeah. So war, war, and more war.