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The speaker claims Iranians respond to U.S. bombing with improvised heat-seeking missile tactics because their radar systems do not work well.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "it's about a $90 million plane, okay? It was shot down over Iran. Okay? Basically in this area right here. And you ask yourself,..."
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"it's about a $90 million plane, okay? It was shot down over Iran. Okay? Basically in this area right here. And you ask yourself,..."
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"...have to figure out how to strike back at you. Their radar systems don't really work, so what they use is heat -seeking missiles...."
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"...iranians have shown themselves extremely creative um so rather than use radars i think they locked down lock uh on um heat signatures okay..."
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"...has stealth technology, meaning you can't actually lock onto it using radar. This costs $100 million each. It took 26 years to develop, so..."
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"...limitations. All of the Gerald Ford in actual combat operations, its radar, its guidance system are all very limited. So the Pentagon withdrew the..."
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"...Yes, exactly. And the Iranians hit them with like pretty limited radar. So it just shows you the corruption of the military industrial complex..."
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"...know the capital of Canada. Canada does not appear on there. Radar doesn't figure it out. They don't figure in their thoughts. But you..."
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"...much more relevant is that it seems that much of the radar system is now depleted. Meaning that basically. With. $10,000 Shihade drones, Iran..."
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"...attack military targets. Okay? And what they're basically targeting are U.S. radar systems and air defenses. Because once these two things go, then Iran..."
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"...so I'm hoping that writing a book is already on your radar. Half of the work is done, and you have a proven audience...."
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"...off the Venezuelan coast. And here you can see the flight radar tracking that. Professor Zhang, maybe you can do, because during the Iran..."
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"...I know there's been some prominent CEOs who've fell off the radar."
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