MMM-E counts all Turkic (and even barely Turkic) Empires and States as part of his history and legacy. Basically he claims "Turkish Army since 200 BC" and "Turkish Navy since 1080 A.D." He lives in his own world. He supports the "16 Turkic Empires" theory as part of Turkish history.
But these were no empires in my eyes. For example the mongols. Do they really were an empire? The just conquered and destroyed and killed. This guy really needs education. A real empire needs more than just an army. A real empire needs culture, society, architecture, science and philosophy. So I can never consider anything of these as an empire.
You are from Greece. You know what I mean.
To be fair,a lot of the drones,if not most of them...were shot down. In Saudi Arabia I mean.
Thats partly true. But its not important. Because these smaller drones (Shahed 136 and its class) is designed for these kind of warfare. The design is not based on expensive equipment wich can not replaced. Design is made as simple as possible and easy to produce in high numbers and easy replacable. Also drone operators can be trained in a very short time because of the easyness. I estimate production cost of a Shahed 136 is something between 10.000$ and 20.000$. 1000 pieces will cost maximum 20 Mio dollar which is fairly nothing. Only developed thing in this drone is the AI, Anti E-Warfare Systems and/or maybe the camera. These are not really expensive modules.
Even if one out of 10 drones reach its target its enough to hit the opponent. Example: Saudi Aramco attack wich put a more than a 500 billion dollar damage to Saudi Oil production, or different successful attacks on Saudi patriot systems wich are not able to shoot this thing down. Even if: 2 Million patriot Missile needed to shoot down a 10k-20k $ drone.
If it is in Irans interest they can also send more developed drones like the Shahed 171, Gaza drone or faster drones like the Karrar.
Shahed 171 drone which was shot down by Israel could not be locked on with their radars. They had to send Aircraft or helicopter in the air and use machine gun to bring it down.
I mean of course in a war you will hit your enemy and of course you will also get punches. I expect even more Iranian drones to be shot down. But this is not important because as long as the system is working and you do more damage to the opponent than the enemy does to you, the system will be sucessful.
What is the gain of a 50 million or 10 million dollar drone which you cant use?
If you ask people like MMM-E and Oublious,Egypt can't defeat Turkey,Iran is too weak,Greece is tiny,French navy too small,Russia can't win in Ukraine and Ukraine is considered too weak for Turkey,Israel has a small army and Cyprus too easy to take.
the haughty shall be haughty. These people are in fact their own worst enemy because they leave no room for innovation, critical thinking and improvement.
When someone has a choleric temper, I provoke them into making rash actions that inevitably lead to mistakes. These mistakes can be exploited against these people. It is as simple as that. These people are not real discussion partners.