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Samuel Bendett said, “[These drones] are not that difficult to put together. They’re not that difficult to purchase. It takes just several weeks to learn how to fly them and again, there’s been years’ worth of experience now collected by the Russian military in Ukraine how to use these drones that can be passed down to their allies.”

A recent report by First HELP and CNA Corporation reveals that 184 law enforcement officers die by suicide annually across the United States.

Dawn Thomas wrote, "This was a far higher rate than virtually all other surrounding Bay Area counties at that time, with little evidence the fines resulted in better public health outcomes in Santa Clara than in the other counties in the region."

Dmitry Gorenburg said, “Russia wasn’t targeting grain ships and Ukraine was largely staying away from Russian Navy ships in the eastern Black Sea.”

Decker Eveleth said, “several of the missiles landed near hangers housing Israeli F-35 stealth fighter jets, with one possible direct hit.”

Samuel Bendett said, “the apparent loss of the S-70 a "significant win" for Western intelligence given that it has been Moscow's flagship drone project for more than a decade.”

Decker Eveleth said, “It seems the strike on Mossad headquarters in Glilot was the least successful. We only saw two impacts, and the one impact that landed even remotely near the headquarters building did so about 520 meters away from the building itself.”

Decker Eveleth said, “Airbases are hard targets, and the sort of target that likely won’t produce many casualties. Iran could choose a different target – say, a densely packed IDF ground forces base, or a target within a civilian area – and a missile strike there would produce a large number of [casualties].

Decker Eveleth said, "This was indeed a straightforward overwhelm of Israeli missile defence. Israeli defence sites are not safe from Iranian attack, and if Iran so chose, they could choose a target that would be sure to generate Israeli military casualties.”

Decker Eveleth said, “these reveal “at least 33 likely impact craters, with likely more impacts currently obscured by clouds.” The total number of impacts is therefore probably closer to 40.”

Samuel Bendett said, "Drone on drone is a new development."

Bryce Peterson said, “But in prisons and jails, where staff aren’t armed and work in a more controlled environment, officials are still warming up to the idea that the devices might be worth the cost.”

Decker Eveleth explained, “Generally, the [People's Liberation Army Rocket Force] tests ICBMs from the interior of the country, out in the northern desert shooting east to werst. This is satisfactory for most system tests (many missile tests are actually conducted to test a specific subsystem). The problem is that this forces you to use a lofted trajectory.”

Joshua Tallis said, "it would be wrong to simply count Chinese ships and U.S. ships and then assume that one country had the advantage over the other. The correct way to understand the U.S. Navy's ability to counter that threat is to understand the U.S. Navy in the context of this much bigger joint warfighting ecosystem.”

Samuel Bendett said, “Russian volunteers, as well as state and affiliated manufacturers, had significantly ramped up the development of FPV drones and were likely handing off tens of thousands of FPVs to the Russian military each month.”

Decker Eveleth noted, “’The problem is that this forces you to use a lofted trajectory’ because the ‘distance from the ICBM test site to the target ranges is around 2000-3000 kilometers.’"