(1) Stop all nuclear work, open the door to inspectors, and demolish and destroy all traces of it.
(2) Become a secular democracy, not the oppressive theocracy it is now.
(3) Stop funding terror, especially outside Iran.
(4) Stop threatening Israel.
(5) Stop exerting control in the Strait of Hormuz.
(6) Stop selling oil to sanctioned or hostile countries.
(7) Stop selling weapons to sanctioned countries, e.g. Russia.
Until these reasonable conditions are met, the war will go on.
No one can.
If one is trying to negotiate while maintaining a theocracy, then Trump won't listen, but ending the theocracy is one of the listed points, so it's logically consistent.
The nation-state is not backed into a corner. For one thing, the west has refrained from using CBRN weapons on urban centres.
exabrial•1h ago
One recent update is that Apache Attack helicopters are being refitted to hunt/kill these types of drones, but the newest Iranian models are flying 300+ mph which is faster than a single rotor helicopter can fly (the leading blade of a helicopter starts to break the sound barrier).
infecto•1h ago
bigyabai•1h ago
In practice, this was seemingly validated by the 2002 Millennium Challenge controversy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002#Exer...
jltsiren•57m ago
Drones such as the Shahed are little more than cheap mediocre cruise missiles. Because they are cheap, the enemy can launch them in large numbers. You counter them by detecting them early and then using plenty of cheap mediocre anti-aircraft weapons. Mostly guns and interceptor drones (=cheap mediocre anti-aircraft missiles).
tehlike•17m ago
marcosdumay•1h ago
Bender•1h ago
Targets: UAVs/drones (including swarms), short-range rockets (Qassam-style), mortars, artillery shells, cruise missiles, and potentially other low/slow-flying threats. It excels against cheap, high-volume threats where kinetic interceptors are uneconomical.
The US is working on a megawatt version that will be mounted on ships to take down full sized aircraft, hyper-sonic weapons and ballistic missiles. Timeline: 2030. Even at 30-50 kW (e.g., the earlier AN/SEQ-3 LaWS on USS Ponce), lasers can target helicopters or manned aircraft to cause crashes by frying sensors or engines. Scaling to hundreds of kW extends range and lethality against faster, larger aircraft.
0_____0•19m ago
Bender•15m ago
I also can't find the average time on target stats, just dwell time.