***TBH I had a lot of different ideas for what to title this, and, well, given the systematic nature of the following post that addresses almost every single one of his (@Solomonsatosh) lies till I got bored, ta-da. It's one thing to have an opinion; it's another to fail to do basic research and spread blatant falsehoods. I was on a work trip, so I wasn't really paying attention to everything he tagged me in, but here is the response he clearly wants.***

I keep seeing the exact same stuff over and over again about the Iranian drones being taken down by $15 million missiles or interceptors, and to those who think that is the case, I hate to break it to you, it isn't true.

In his most recent rant about the impending doom and gloom of America (feel free to read the brain rot, or do what I did and waste time watching the videos #1459876), he naturally starts out with a copy-and-paste of almost the exact same 5-6 sentences he uses in every post. However, to his credit, he does try to actually use some numbers to back himself up.... Now, are they accurate or real numbers? No, but he tries. Let's go through how he butchered this one.

He loves his China (they gotta pay hella well to spend as much time as he does shrilling for them when the facts continue to say the opposite) and mentions Wing Long 3 drone factory, a China/Saudi Arabia partnership, and claims it is due to the US failure of delivering AMRAM's.... Quick question for him then is, why is this factory not producing well air-launched missiles? Why is the goal of it to produce 48 long-range drones annually? That isn't what an AMRAM is supposed to do. A drone and a missile have two completely different purposes, and the goal is to produce 48 a year?! How many millions per drone is that to get your $5 bil investment back?

Apparently, according to him and his super-accurate information, the U.S. and Israel have run out of interceptors. Well, we were supposed to only have a week to 10 days, worth 3, almost 4 weeks ago now, and yet we continue to knock missiles and drones out of the sky. Iran claimed this morning to have launched missiles at the Abraham Lincoln Carrier, but we noticed the ship wasn't hit... The mental gymnastics he has to do to come up with this stuff is just wild. Over the first 23 days of the conflict, Israel has had a 92% success interception rate, which is an unheard-of number for the sheer number of missiles, drones, and artillery launched at the country. No one else, including the US, has a layered system that has shown time and time again it can hold its own. Sidenote... I couldn't find anything about Iran striking Israel's "main military airport base" as Israel, like every other country in the world, has major airbases spread out across the country. It doesn't just have a single one that is the "main".

He starts off saying that SM-6 interceptors cost $4.9 million and an Iranian drone cost $7k. The issue here is two-fold, one the SM-6's primary purpose is not to shoot down drones... it is used to target ballistic missiles in their terminal phase as well as cruise missiles. Can it be used to hit a drone? Yep, but is that what we are using it for? Not really, it's an option, but it isn't the primary use. Has it been used as a case of last resort to protect valuable assets? Also yes. The second issue is his claim of an Iranian drone costing $7k, and well, that's not even what Iran says they cost, and to find that number, I had to dig, and it appears he is factoring in cheaper labor and mass production (two things that are no longer possible for Iran). He also fails to consider how costly a $7k drone is for Iran compared to the cost to the US. Purchasing power is a huge factor here, and outside sources note that the US can afford to produce interceptors ranging from $50k to $1 million because, to the US, the price is the same as Iran's $7k drone (even though Iran has said it is between $20 and $30k a drone).

Google obviously isn't available in New Zealand, I guess, because we can reload vertical launch cells at sea... It was a huge worldwide news story when we did it in 2024, and it wasn't just a one-off. Now it is something we do, so the destroyers can keep going as long as they get fuel and supplies, which they clearly have, or they all would be empty by now. Not to mention, we have at least one, though it's rumored to be 3, using direct-energy weapons to take out drones. There are confirmed cases of its use in this conflict.

We also have the good old US doesn't produce enough of these a year, however, over the last few years (since we have been providing/allowing US arms to Ukraine), the military and defense partners have rapidly expanded capabilities with defense companies finishing up the expansions that they needed to (for example, Raytheon expansion in Alabama is almost complete) and by the end of the year 4x the number of missiles will be produced. That 125 SM-6 per year will be at 500 SM-6 per year by the end of the year.

Remember in 2023, when fertilizer was in short supply because the Russian-Ukrainian war was directly taking out global suppliers? Well, here we are 3-4 years later, alive. Most of that LNG and oil, for that matter, goes not to Europe but to Asia. That is who is getting crushed the most by this. Russian companies are a terrible metric because when the Russian war kicked off, they lost over a million people going to places like the UAE. Those people hate Putin, hence why they ran. The UAE was also a huge hub for facilitating Iranian money laundering, and guess what has happened. The UAE is punishing both countries now, especially since Russia is helping Iran with targeting, and they are still missing and hitting civilian infrastructure. It was just a couple of months ago that the UAE/Saudi partnership was destroyed with Yemen and Sudan, but now, suddenly, they are stronger than ever.

I really could go on and on about all of these points you tried to make, like how Chinese Naval ships are not the same as the American ones. You can't just slap stuff on a regular boat and turn it into a military one, like China has done. Or if you are going to guess who else will do that? Plus, China has had a hell of a time launching subs.... one sank immediately in the river last year, the year before the whole crew drowned off the coast of Taiwan after getting caught in a Chinese laid anti-submarine net.... they tried to cover that one up but failed.

I feel like this is enough disproving for people for now, but I had to say something, given I was on official travel, then got stuck at an airport and wasn't really looking at this slop you were posting. Hopefully, this helps people's brains recover.

Please @Solomonsatoshi use Google. I know it's available in New Zealand, and this whole thing could have been avoided by a single check before you use videos that have AI-generated thumbnails that inspire shock and awe to garner clicks.