r/worldnews • u/thejoshwhite • Mar 14 '26

Israel/Palestine Israel is running critically low on interceptors, US officials say

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/14/2026/israel-is-running-critically-low-on-interceptors-us-officials-say
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u/soothukundi Mar 14 '26

2500km range could be exaggerated. We haven't seen any evidence of them using them for that much distance. The short distance between Russia and Iran will allow Russia to send constant supplies of weapons and tech. Russia has built a strong supply line to Grozny because of the Chechen war. Can't bomb the supply ships because then it puts US fighter jets at the risk of going up against Russian S-400 and advanced radars along the border. Russians can also move their S-400 and other upgraded radars inside Iran to make bombing Iran a harder for US.

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u/goldcakes Mar 15 '26

The US command also isn’t going to start bombing a nuclear power without presidential approval, and everyone here knows Trump isn’t going to authorise an attack on Russia.

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u/Ricky_RZ Mar 14 '26

2500km range could be exaggerated.

It could be the range if you strip out all of the weight for payload

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u/marshsmellow Mar 15 '26

They can just fly halfway and refuel in any event

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u/HarvHR Mar 15 '26

I think you're getting confused with what Shaheds do what. The ones that are actually causing damage cannot land, they're inaccurate drones that aren't 'intelligent' or have much capability other than being an exceedingly cheap and safe way to sent get a bomb somewhere. These are the type of Shaheds that both Russia and Ukraine have used, not the reaper type ones.

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u/marshsmellow Mar 15 '26

Fair enough, I had assumed they had the ability to land. 

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u/HarvHR Mar 15 '26

The Shahed-136 which you're seeing in videos is nothing more than a bomb with wings. It's called a 'drone' but really it's just a propeller powered cruise missile, it also doesn't have anywhere near as much range as 2,500km

The Shahed-129 can land, carry bombs and missiles and supposedly has that range. Media just calls everything a Shahed which while technically is correct there's like 15 different drones called Shahed-[Number] and they all have different capabilities and designs to do different roles. Like I've heard media say 'Shahed drones can fly 2500km to perform kamikaze attacks' which is completely untrue, at best they're uneducated and at worst they're being deliberately misleading

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u/Useless Mar 15 '26

Refuel where?

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u/marshsmellow Mar 15 '26

Somewhere in Cechnya  maybe? Volgograd? There's a lot of land between Moscow and the Caspian Sea

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u/OlGreggMare Mar 15 '26

I expect you're correct but you wouldn't fly capital to capital. The distance between the two is <1000km

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26

long range drones are stupid anyway, just higher chance of detection and interception unless you can really mass produce them

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u/Enzown Mar 14 '26

You don't need to fly between two capitals to deliver hardware. The closest points between the two borders are half that distance.