π¨ THE U.S. NAVY JUST USED A LASER WEAPON IN COMBAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY. π¨
CENTCOM released footage of the HELIOS system mounted on a destroyer off Iran’s coast. It’s shooting down drones with LIGHT.
Here’s why this is the most important military development since the atomic bomb:
THE PROBLEM:
β Iran’s $20,000 Shahed drones were bankrupting the U.S. defense budget
β Every Patriot interceptor costs $3-4 MILLION
β Every THAAD interceptor costs $10 MILLION
β The UAE alone intercepted 755 drones + 172 ballistic missiles β BILLIONS spent in ONE WEEK
β Iran was WINNING the math. Spend $30K, force the enemy to spend $4M. Repeat.
β That cost ratio was Iran’s most powerful weapon
THE SOLUTION:
β HELIOS runs on ELECTRICITY
β The cost of firing it: less than your monthly electric bill
β No missiles to reload. No magazine to deplete. No resupply ship needed.
β Unlimited shots. As fast as light. Against a $20,000 drone.
β Iran spends $30,000 per drone. HELIOS spends PENNIES to destroy it.
THE MATH JUST FLIPPED:
β οΈ Before HELIOS: Iran spends $30K β U.S. spends $4M to stop it. Iran wins.
β οΈ After HELIOS: Iran spends $30K β U.S. spends $0.50 to stop it. Iran LOSES.
β Iran spent YEARS developing Shahed drone doctrine
β The entire strategy was: “flood cheap drones, bankrupt the defense”
β HELIOS makes that strategy OBSOLETE overnight
β A weapon designed to bleed the U.S. dry just became target practice for a laser that costs nothing to fire
This is the first real combat test of directed energy weapons in history.
If it works at scale β and early reports say it DOES β then:
π Iran’s drone advantage = GONE
π The 200-to-1 cost ratio = REVERSED
π Every drone Iran launches = destroyed for pennies
π Drone warfare as a strategy = DEAD before it even peaked
π Every military on Earth that invested in drones = back to the drawing board
Iran just found out that the weapon it spent a decade perfecting can be defeated by a LASER running on a ship’s generator.
The future of warfare isn’t drones. It isn’t missiles. It’s directed energy.
And the U.S. just tested it in a live war zone.
Prepare accordingly. π¨π¨π¨
Being fwd as received, lot of sense.
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ISRAELI JOURNALIST GIVES FULL ACCOUNT ON WAR ON THE FIFTH DAY
“THIS IS WHY OUR GOVT IS CENSORING US”
(Alon Mizrahi)
“We are witnessing history. Iran is, to the surprise of everyone, fucking up US bases so thoroughly and extensively and so decisively that the world isnβt ready to see it.”
“In 4 days, Iran has managed to expand its scope of military domination in the region. Iran has destroyed the most precious, most expensive military bases, assets and equipment in the whole world. American bases in Bahrain and Kuwait and Qatar and Saudi Arabia are some of the biggest military installations in the entire world. These are assets that took trillions to build over the course of several decades. Weβre talking a major chunk of military expenditure for over 30 years, going up in smoke.
We are seeing radars costing hundreds of millions of dollars a piece being destroyed in an instant. We are seeing entire military bases being abandoned and burned, decimated and destroyed. And Iβm telling you from my knowledge, the US has never suffered such devastation in its entire history, except maybe Pearl Harbor but that was one attack.
No enemy in a normal war has done to the US military what the Iranians are doing to the US military right now. This defies belief. The military situation is so bad that censorship blocks practically every piece of new information about this war. If youβve noticed weβre being exposed to less and less every day.
Thirty-five years ago during the first Iraq war, we were being shown endless footage from Iraq. The smart bombs and the cameras were a novelty back then, but every night we were being shown night footage. Now we are seeing almost no video.
Understand this! This is supposedly the worlds biggest military power having the worlds biggest air capabilities and for 4 days when the US is on the offensive, supposedly and is supposed to be breaking through Iranian defenses we are seeing NO signs of American domination over Iranian skies. Where is all the footage of our planes flying over Tehran or any part of Iran for that matter?
American soldiers can not even dream of setting foot in Iran. And to understand how desperate this war is, that on the 4th day youβre already hearing the craziest suggestions and ideas from the Trump administration. They are suggesting to send military escorts for oil carrying vessels coming out of the Persian gulf. What are you even talking about?! You want to send American ships into the range of thousands of Iranian missiles? NO ONE can pass through the strait of Hormuz right now.
The Iranians have been preparing for this for decades. Theyβre flaunting this idea of arming Kurdish militias to invade Iran. What the FUCK are you talking about? Have you seen a map of Iran?! It seems like the Trump administration has never seen a map of Iran! Do you know how massive it is? What do you mean invade Iran?! You think a 10,000 man militia can invade Iran?! Or even 50,000?! Or 100,000?! Iran will swallow them.
The US and Israel have already lost this war. The US and Israel can kill millions of civilians in their homes. They have huge bombs and can explode buildings, but they will not win this war. Iranians military infrastructure and weaponry is so far underground ALL OVER IRAN. There is no way for the Americans and definitely not the Israelis to reach any of it. They are FUCKED.
They have started something they have no chance of bringing to an end. When this is over the US will never come back to West Asia. There will be no American presence in the Middle East. Iβm telling you this now with certainty.β
Alon Mizrahi, Israeli journalist and peace activist on Substack
