Iran guts US armed drone fleet, with Jon Elmer

You are watching and listening to the Electronic Intifada. I am John Elmer. This is the Resistance Report on day 1049 of Israel's genocide in Gaza, day 174 of the US-Israeli war with Iran, the 60-day memorandum of understanding ceasefire framework deadline passed just the other day. So, that 60 days has passed. Um there has been a pause in uh large-scale fighting in the month of August, but um that follows on July, which uh saw a significant exchange of fire, the most that we had seen since the uh early June uh memorandum was signed. So, this war of choice started by the US and Israel has no end in sight. They're losing the war they started, and that's something that is even starting to penetrate into the corporate press in the United States, which we'll take a quick look at some of that reporting. We won't uh dwell too long on it. Um we'll also be covering Iran's hollowing out of the United States Air Force's MQ-9 Reaper drone fleet, um the workhorse of the US Air Force's hunter-killer drones. Um but, we're going to start, as always, in Strait of Hormuz. Let's take a look at the uh maps. I got you a new satellite image here uh that shows uh well, it shows the Middle East uh all through the center of the map there. On the left is the Red Sea down into the Bab el-Mandeb uh choke point down there, which the uh Yemenis have included into the blockade, um part of a blockade of Saudi, but also uh part of the larger war in Iran as well. If you look over to the right, um you can see Iran is up on the top of the screen in the corner. If you follow down there, you can see the Strait of Hormuz, the key choke point into the Persian Gulf, um from which uh 20% of the world's oil uh before the war flowed. Um So just to give you that sense. Iran has stated clearly that the Strait of Hormuz will never go back to the pre-war status and it will not be open unless the US adheres to the memorandum of understanding including to stop threatening in any language whatsoever the genocidal threats of Trump erasing a civilization. She said the other day that they were going to carry out the largest attacks since World War II. He said that just a couple of days or maybe the day after the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs by the US and Japan. So that kind of language is is clearly stated in the memorandum of understanding not to be continued but also the ending of the war on all the fronts on Iran and its allies, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen and Iraq, the lifting of the naval blockade and withdrawing of its naval for US naval forces and Air Force from the vicinity of Iran, the paying of reparations for the two aggressive and imposed wars on Iran, lifting the unjust and illegal sanctions imposed on the Iranian people and releasing unconditionally the frozen stolen assets of the Iranian people. This is all clearly stated out in the memorandum of understanding >> [snorts] >> and again we will be looking at oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz in a moment here but let's take a look at the other overlay this map of US bases in the region. These are the 17 core bases in the region. The red triangles are where soldiers were admitted to be killed. The yellow triangles as we know from the first phase of the war are bases that are largely destroyed and the United States is going to have to grapple with the future in the Middle East of this uh security architecture because repairing these bases um is something that under the current situation of no end in sight of this war is not something that can happen uh without a comprehensive um settlement of the Iran-US war. But also you can see each of those countries, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, particularly Qatar, Bahrain, and the UAE, they claim they were not consulted on this war in the first place uh this war of choice by Netanyahu and Trump um and they continue to uh appeal to Trump to not return to war because as Iran promised before the war started, it would be a regional war and all of these countries hosting US bases would be the targets of attacks. And should the US uh attacks expand, the targeting inside those countries would expand as well. So the IRGC said that all 17 of these bases were targeted during the July exchange of fire. Um just making it clear um from Iran's point of view that this will always be a regional war and it will always be escalating from the previous point. We're not going back to square one on this war. Strategically Iran understands that the Strait of Hormuz um it it is under their control and there's absolutely nothing that the United States can do about it except send out idiotic tweets and uh AI videos on their official White House accounts, none of which we will show you here because you are all above that. Let's look at number three, the uh bases map here from the Congressional Research Service so that you can see where each of those uh the US bases are. These are all uh bases that we have talked about for um the entirety of this war because they are in uh constant threat from Iranian ballistic missiles and the degradation of the uh radar apparatuses of the United States throughout the region have been destroyed by Iranian attacks and leaves them more vulnerable today than at any point in the war and that is the case going forward with each step of this war. The right-wing American Enterprise Institute released a report just the other day that they estimated that the cost to rebuild the bases in the Middle East would be more than 5 billion which I will say is a wildly conservative undercount considering the loss of the facilities. Maybe they're just talking facilities and not the billion-dollar radars, hundred millions of hundreds of millions of dollar radars that need to be replaced as well, but you can see that this war has pressed the US security architecture into the Middle East into a point where pulling up stakes and leaving the region is not a pipe dream. It is a probably a economically um prudent thing for the United States to do. It's obvious that all of these countries don't feel protected by the US security architecture and should this war escalate into targeting wholesale like Trump promised infrastructure and industry that these Gulf states don't stand a chance in that war and of course these maps always show how close those countries are to the shores of Iran giving Iran all the tools in its at its disposal to fight these battles. Let's take a look at number four. This is the transit scheme through here. We've talked about this a lot, but you can see where the ships are being targeted if they go on that pretty dangerous Omani route through shallow water. Um, shown you a bunch of maps over the time about just how shallow that water uh those islands off Oman are. But those are the areas where the ships are being targeted. In between is the previous traffic separation scheme and above is the new traffic separation scheme that the Iranians are handling. This is normally 20 20 million barrels a day are passing through the Strait of Hormuz, 20% of the world's oil and industry analysts expected a shock, right? We thought $150 plus for barrels of oil that the price would skyrocket, that there would be a global recession that the World Bank said was going to happen. Trump said it was going to happen, too. He didn't want to be Herbert Hoover, he said, who was the president going into the depression. But really there's a couple reasons why this has been delayed, but not prevented in any way. It's simply been kicked down the road and that is because of the drawdown, massive drawdown of strategic reserves in the United States and in Japan as well. But the key to this all has been China, who cut their imports by 50% in the period of this that we're talking about of this Iran war. So from early 2026 roughly 5% of the global demand and China was able to do this through massive energy stockpiling that has happened over the past 12 months and their strategic reserves are more than a billion barrels. But again, these are ways to to pause, to postpone, to push down the line the problems that are simply not sustainable. This war cannot go on indefinitely without a significant global impact. Oman and and Iran are in negotiations about the transit scheme through the Strait of Hormuz, but Iran has said that those negotiations do not equal the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. All of the previous um um, things that the US has to do, demands on the US that they agreed to, uh, have to be upheld before, um, the Strait of Hormuz will see normal traffic. There are, although, normal traffic passing through the, uh, northern, through the Iranian waters, and we can see that on this next image number five here we're at. >> Um, you can see this. This is the AIS tracking, uh, for vessels, um, and this, uh, this comes from the United, uh, Kingdom's Maritime Trade Operations, UKMTO, um, Maritime Trade Operations, UKMTO. These are naval, US allied naval, uh, organization, and you can see, uh, that the mass number of ships that have crossed have crossed on the Iranian, uh, channel. So, uh, they have been safe on the Iranian channel except for the United States targeting them, um, to try to make people not use that route. Uh, but of course, the US doesn't have enough ships to, um, to match the bluster of their, um, of Trump's wall of steel, uh, idiocy. Um, they just don't have, uh, the capabilities in the region right now. Previous to the war, 140 ships crossed through the Strait of Hormuz. Now, if we look at the next slide, you'll see the numbers as they are as of last week. Um, like decimated, literally. Um, and so, these are also American numbers. This is from the Joint Maritime Information Center. This is the Allied, um, Combined Maritime Forces uh, of the US, the UK, and their allies that are doing this work. So, >> um, they also have the ability, presumably, to log, um, ships that didn't have their AIS on. Um, but as we have seen, and we'll see again in this report, the United The United States does not have the resources in any way uh to continue to uh to oppress this blockade uh militarily, and that's why we have seen over the past few days the talk from the White House is about an economic war on Iran. So, something Iran has already experienced for the last um 45 years or so, uh quick math, but yeah, they uh are more than ready for economic warfare. Um, and the fact is that when the US is moving to that, they're admitting defeat on the military front. Let's take a look at number seven because the Yemenis joined the blockade as well, and here is a ship that attempted to fill at a pipeline that passes uh the Strait of Hormuz and head up a Saudi vessel heading up into the Red Sea, and it was turned back by the Yemeni armed forces. You can see it there just before it enters the Bab-el-Mandeb, and that has been something that has um taken a bite out of the other main choke point, the Bab-el-Mandeb. Uh Drop Site uh quoted Kepler study uh that tracked Saudi oil flows through the Bab-el-Mandeb have fallen from more than by more than from more than 4 million barrels per day in mid-July to about 1 million uh per day by the end of the month. That's according to researcher Rory Johnston. By July 31st, Kepler flows had already fallen uh Kepler said flows had already fallen below 2 million barrels. So, another few million barrels taken off the market um due to the blockade uh on the Red Sea as well. And let's take a look at number eight cuz we remember all of this uh was supposed to be fixed, was supposed to be uh this was the deal, whatever Trump said the best deal ever, hugely awesome deal. Um, this is him signing it in Farsi. He signed it in Farsi and English, so there's no uh question that he understands what was in the 14-point plan. The 14-point plan was written for him. It's less than 700 words, which is still probably more than he would have liked, but it is something that he can grapple grapple with at least. Diesel prices this week went over $100 a barrel. The American Automotive Association said that gas is up 30%, diesel's up 50%, jet fuel's up 70%. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, said that a typical household in the United States has already paid $1,000 because of this war. Most of that in gasoline prices. The rest of the knock-on effects will come later to that, and that is what he he he described that as the absolute floor of the cost to each family. So, the cost of military failure is passed on to the American public. It's also passed on to American soldiers and sailors, which you can see in this next slide. Um The sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln have been trying to jump overboard amid their extended deployment. They have been at sea for more than 200 days without a port call. Trump mocked that and said they should be at sea for longer. And the reason why they are at sea is because the Iranians have prevented traffic from the US into the Gulf, which is where they would fill up and restock their their ships. So, they're blocked from that through the Iranian blockade, through the Iranian military capacity to block the strait. The United States knows that, and that's why there was only one instance of sneaking ships through to try to prove to try to rescue one of the ships that was inside there, but they're not doing anything like this to get ships through the strait and they were fired on repeatedly as they did that and they're not going to be I don't think doing those trips much if at all. So, the reason why these carriers are in such dire conditions is because they're constantly being fired on. They can't go on to shore because they're blocked from their resupply bases, their multi-billion dollar resupply bases like the one in Bahrain, the naval support base in Bahrain. So, the 5,000 sailors and Marines that are on the USS Abraham Lincoln have been sending messages to their families and the CENTCOM Central Command, the US military command responsible for the Middle East has has confirmed that one sailor went overboard and was saved, but in an in another incident, one sorry, in a separate incident aboard the Lincoln, this is from Navy Times. As you can see this article on the screen is all is the same article from Navy Times. So, they they rescued one sailor who went overboard, but in a separate incident aboard the Lincoln, a sailor on watch saw a shipmate preparing to go overboard and he intervened, according to the sailor's wife. Her husband called out to the sailor before reaching the individual and grabbing their arms and pulling them back onto the deck. Her husband told her the sailor had not yet gone over the side when he got there. Three other soldiers heard the three other sailors heard the commotion and came running. And to this all, Trump has said that 266 straight days at sea because you're cut off from your supply lines by military failure is not long enough out at sea. So, literally throwing troops under the bus, throwing them overboard in this case. So, these are just stories that I have penetrated into the media, into the corporate media, into the military media about the situation of this war now 175 days on. Let's take a look at number 10 because they also don't have any missiles. I showed you this last show with some graphs from think tanks, but this is now in the week that you didn't see me. This is now as I said penetrated into the corporate media. This is a Reuters saying it's an exclusive. It's not really an exclusive. It's a now known facts that the US has has used virtually all of its long-range precision long-range precision missiles during this war. So, that's tactical ballistic missiles that it's firing from all of the countries in the region who are asking them not to fire from there because it brought it brings attacks on them. In any case, this doesn't seem to be much of a problem anymore because their $1 million missiles are out of virtually out of stock. And Reuters said that there was a framework deal between Raytheon, the parent company of the Tomahawk cruise missile for from to boost to 1,000 units a year from their current rate of 60 per year. So, since this war started in 2023, they've made 120 Tomahawk cruise missiles and fired those off within hours of the first day of the war. So, not looking good on the weapons front. This next slide shows you defensive weapons. These are the missile interceptors. The Washington Post remarked on an empty arsenal in the first month of the war, the US fired off more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles and more than 1,000 Patriot and fad interceptors. The US used more than 1,300 of the Army's tactical ballistic missiles in the initial weeks of fighting. And as I reported last show, as of last week, the global inventory of Patriot missiles has fallen from 2,200 before the war to 827. Well, the THAAD missiles um have gone from 452 to 278. So, this 50 days of war uh plus a little bit of uh tit-for-tat during the uh MOU um means that the United States cannot even fight another 50-day war because they're well below half on all of these munitions. Um and uh just uh something from the uh US Missile Defense Agency's maximum production rate is 96 uh THAAD interceptors per year, but they didn't deliver uh that interceptors in the last year and a half. Um but the Pentagon has is seeking now 857 of them in the next year's defense budget, and it and almost 2,600 over the next 5 years. Um According to the US Missile Defense Agency's maximum production rate, um it would require approximately 27 years to fulfill those requests. So, this is not something that is being fixed soon. It's not something that's being fixed in Trump's presidency. This is a long-term issue. It's a 3-to-5-year production line for all of these missiles. Effectively, they're handmade, these missiles. These are not on massive um you know, mechanical lines like a truck um factory. These are very precise uh engineering feats, and they use uh extremely ex- expensive uh rare earth minerals and all kinds of electronics. They need skilled workers that the United States uh uh currently doesn't have, and an industrial base that has been um really hollowed out in the United States. So, these are real uh, significant issues of fighting capacity for the United States. And the fact that this is out in the media, you know these numbers are conservative. Um, so, it's a worse situation than what uh, this indicates. But, let's take a look at the drones cuz this story came out this week from the Washington Post which cited a Air Force officer saying that the uh, Iranians had knocked out at least 45 of the United States Reaper drone arsenal which comes out to more than 25% again. These are conservative numbers on something that um, isn't absolute because the MQ-9 Reaper line production line has been halted and it has been halted for more than 2 years. They're not making these drones anymore. Every loss is an absolute loss. and it's even unclear uh, if this 45 tally which quickly became 46 cuz the Iranians shot another one down the other day, if if that tally includes the seven uh, Reaper drones that Iran shot down in July. We watched many of those on this program crash to the ground. Um, so, you can see where this math is going and it's not going in the direction for the United States. The Air Force uh, said unprecedented levels of destruction of their fleet is proof of how useful that fleet is. Uh, but in actual fact, these drones were built for uncontested skies while Yemen and Iran are very much contested um, and these lumbering aircraft that are ma- that have massive radar signatures. The radar bounces around between um, the vehicle and the um, weapons pylons that are shiny metal uh, hanging off the wings. They're just very easy to shoot down particularly with a 358 missile that um, Iran and uh, the Yemenis have both used. The Yemenis themselves have taken down 25 Reaper drones. So, you add that to the at least 45 um and the US is admitting 70 of their drones going into this war before 2023. The maximum number of drones that the US uh MQ-9 drones that the US had um was 200. Um they're talking now here the um uh at the Senate Foreign Relations uh sorry, Senate Armed Services Committee and Air Force officer said that they have 135 left right now. And like I said, the production and production line ended 2 years ago, which means um that they're not replacing these. They're actually take They're brain They're still at the brainstorming stage in the Pentagon of what kind of drone is going to replace the Reaper for its hunter-killer um um capacities. This is both the surveillance drone, but as we know well and in Afghanistan and Iraq, they're also uh drones that carry out air strikes. Um And it is their primary workhorse for that. Um so, before even before the Iran war, the Yemenis had knocked out 10% more than 10% of the drone fleet just in the battle of the Red Sea that started in October 2023 in solidarity with Gaza. And the IDF for their part, they admitted early in the war that quote dozens um of comparable drones were shot down by Iran. They won't say the actual number and we know that several more were shot down by Hezbollah air defenses um that have destroyed her Elbit Hermes and Heron uh drones in the air. Again, all things that you have watched on the Resistance Report. Let's take a look at the next slide here or the next uh video here. This is a a a clip from Iranian state TV showing a highlight of these drones being shot down. Each of these that's a fighter jet that was clipped there. That was the F-35 that was clipped. But we know the F-15s multiple F-15s have been shot down. For the US doctrine, the US flies 56 combat lines um combat air patrols with Reaper drones. And according to doctrine, they should have four for each combat air patrol. So 56 lines times four puts you well over 200. If you take the numbers that I just read to you of the losses, the US is operating at less than 50% of their drone capacity. And if these numbers are conservative, then it's an even worse situation. And this is again, to reiterate, this is fighting for basically 50 days and then some sporadic fighting during the memorandum of understanding. This absolutely cannot be sustained. If you simply say that the war is going to continue for 60 more days, you would have you would have emptied out the entire Reaper fleet. So this is a real issue for the United States. It's a real issue for their force posture. And it's an issue that is going to certainly mean that they lose this war with Iran, which has been known I think for a long time. Let's take a look at 14. The Iranian The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps showed off their underground bunker here. All of the parts that have been collected from the downed fighter jets. I mean, you can see some bombs there. They also intercepted cruise missiles. That's the um the decal there. You can see from the fighter jets. You can see that's a Hermes 900 by Elbit. Um that had been shot down. You can see the sensor bulbs here for um uh for the sensor systems on these drones that take them from 30 million drones. Like the Pentagon uh reporters sort of settled on 30 million as the price uh for these MQ-9 Reaper drones, but people who have followed this show will remember back at when we first started covering the destruction of them that that 30 million number was a real undersell that the US Air Force number is closer to 50 million per drone um particularly with the sensor packages here. And some of these parts we have watched uh be carried. I showed you guys uh farmers carry parading them through the town after they had been shot down. Um there you can see that uh Hermes 900 there. You can see the blades in the background from the MQ-9 Reapers that are uh that have been shot down. And so this is just a a collection of these parts to show uh on television uh to the Iranian people uh some of the losses. There you can see um There you can see the canopy uh and the seat and the ejector ejection seat from the uh F-15E that was shot down. Its two pilots had to be uh rescued. Uh people remember that story uh back in April. Um so they have that fighter jet there. They're pointing to it here and uh showing you around that. Um And during this report the IRGC said that more than 85% of its air defense capacity is still in place. So we can remember uh ridiculous comments by the Israelis and the Americans saying that they uh had decimated that it was down to 10% of their air defense. Or Trump just said every week that every day that they had knocked out their air defenses. They have no air defense, he kept saying. Um there you see the deco from the side of the jet there, too, as well. Um, and we can look on the next slide at the uh close-ups here of You can see the distinct forward-facing in-tank uh intake scoop from the MQ-9. There is the Hermes 900. Uh, it's not intact. They put it back together, but they've got most of that drone. Um, and we saw these on the ground with their weapon systems as well. So, um, reverse engineering is certainly a factor uh at play in some of these. Um, let's take a look at 16. there it is again. That's the MQ-9 propeller. That is its defeat. Um, and the hollowing out of that weapon for the United States that is that can be shot down uh without losing pilots, uh, it's a really important part of the battle even though the United States and Israel claim they had air superiority over Iran, we know that that is definitely not the case. That room you're looking at on the screen right now is a pretty good indication of that. If the videos that we show every week on here weren't uh enough, you can certainly see the evidence there. Also this week the uh Iranians released some satellite footage. Let's look at 17 here. This is from uh the US's Al Dhafra uh base in the UAE. This is a TPS-78 phased um tactical phased array radar system um that has been uh blown up. Let's look at the after picture now. You could see the erasure of that. So, that was an earlier uh attack from the earlier part of the war. Um, all three of these were from earlier in the war, but the Iranians got this have the satellite imagery and because of the censorship of the United States uh and its allies of their commercial satellites uh self-censoring uh or being told to censor and adhering to it so that we don't see the damage to the bases that we saw in the first weeks of the war. Um but you can imagine um that if when we do ultimately get those that those bases um are even in significantly worse shape than they were uh in the first weeks of the war. Um and these this radar system, this is part of a war on these radar systems that Iran has carried out and we have a verification from the early stages of the war of at least a dozen um of these uh high-profile and very expensive, some of them very expensive, the FPS uh 132 early warning radar that was destroyed in Kuwait, it's a billion-dollar radar. There was two THAAD radars that were destroyed. These are $800 million uh radars. Uh one was located at Muwaffaq al-Salti Air in Jordan um that we broke down on this show as well. Um and also uh at least a dozen tactical uh theater radars as well, which I think that one that you're seeing on the screen would qualify as one of those. So, we're talking now in dozens of these uh having been knocked out. Let's take a look at 19 and 20. Um this is the battle damage from the Habshan complex. This is the United Arab Emirates gas compression unit at the Habshan refinery, its largest refinery. Uh and you can see there that it was um massive damage to the refinery. They had to shut down the refinery. Um the strike force an immediate total emergency shutdown of the entire Habshan hub uh to depressurize the line and contain the fires because Habshan is the heart of the UAE's domestic natural gas supply. Uh the sudden losses of 6.1 billion cubic uh standard cubic feet per day of capacity triggered immediate power grid fluctuation and energy shortages across all industries and society in the UAE. And this is the exact reason why the UAE uh and the Saudis and others urged Trump not to return to a war that they keep losing. Let's take a look at the next one cuz we watched we followed these as well. This is a data center in Bahrain. Data center that they say sports the United States military. They were physically crippled with cruise missile and drone strikes in July. We showed those over the last few weeks. But again, verified war damage that the United States is not showing, not admitting to, but are here seen clear as day. So [snorts] that is the Iran front for now. We will obviously keep following that war. But like I said, the United States doesn't have military options right now and I'm not expecting an immediate escalation in the in a war that they know they can't win. Although without massive force posture uh elevation in the region that we don't see happening in the near future for sure. Let's take a look at Lebanon. Hezbollah the yesterday just yesterday released a set of videos. Let's start with the map here so we get situated. Yes, perfect. Thank you. This is Ali al-Taher Ridge at the top. We watched the battle of around Beaufort Castle and Zawtar Shakia in the area of Beaufort Castle. That's right on the line of Israel's buffer zone that they established at the ceasefire. And you can see this is a New York Times map that it the Israelis are attempting to extend from the ceasefire line up into the Ali al-Taher Ridge which is a strategic ridgeline overlooking Nabatieh but also all of Western Lebanon and south into uh Israeli territory, occupied Palestine. And it's a piece of ground that the Israelis keep threatening to take. Hezbollah, for their part, has been very very clear that they are adhering to the ceasefire, but if there is movement on Ali al-Taher Ridge, that they will fight. Um the Israeli uh the Israeli military has a is doing what it always does, using a ceasefire to uh achieve uh militarily what it failed to achieve on the battlefield. They're destroying um in the same way they did in the Gaza ceasefire. They're destroying these uh border villages. They're carrying out massacres. They're shelling. They're carrying out air strikes. Um this is a very Israeli ceasefire. On Saturday, the IDF said that Hezbollah uh armed FBV drone strikes in the area seriously wounded three uh an officer and two other soldiers from the Yahalom tunnel unit. And the feeling from the Israelis is that there are Hezbollah fighters underground in the uh Ali al-Taher ridgeline in tunnels, and that is the reason why Hezbollah uh one of the reasons why Hezbollah will defend this territory and has promised to defend this territory should the Israelis move forward. The attack on Saturday was the third time that Hezbollah has uh hit the Israelis in uh deadly missions um in missions with casualties, not necessarily dead um in in the last uh few weeks, last two and a half, three weeks. Um but there's been no field reports from them because they're adhering to the ceasefire for now. Um but like I said, three of those incidents. And there is another incident in Majdal Zoun, which if you look over to um the western coast there. It's just above that expanded no-go zone June 18th. So again, they're going beyond what this buffer zone line was supposed to be and those true troops a couple weeks ago two troops were killed and seven wounded including four critically in what the IDF said was a booby trap IED in Majdal Shams on the western side of the country earlier this month. Again, both instances are the IDF trying to achieve through a ceasefire what they failed to achieve on the battlefield. You'll recall we covered the attempt the IDF attempt on Majdal Shams that was thwarted by the resistance with 28 operations in a 24-hour window of time. On Tuesday Hezbollah released a video of operations from before the ceasefire around Beaufort Castle in the final days of the ceasefire and we can take a look at that video now. These are unseen footage from before the ceasefire that Hezbollah is releasing here and they're going to do damage to a whole string of Israeli armored vehicles and you can see the Israeli camouflage system is working a little bit has been upgraded a bit but you you can clearly see that's an armored troop carrier there. Obviously Hezbollah can clearly see that it is an armored troop carrier and they struck it. But this isn't significant upgrade from what we saw the Israelis doing early in the war where they were just throwing fishing nets over the roofs of the entire neighborhood and Hezbollah just flew under the fishing nets and struck. There's a D9 armored bulldozer getting destroyed. Those bulldozers cannot handle the anti-tank warhead that these drones carry. And I think I think probably Hezbollah released these both because they should and we want to see all of their operations. There you see a tank and a D9 there as well and they're going to choose the D9 which is something that we tracked all through the war much higher success rate destroying the D9 bulldozer than the tank although we've seen many burning tanks and we know of soldiers that were killed in burning tanks. So they're hitting those as well. They're going to hit this one here the Merkava there right in front of you trying to get it into the turret gap there. You can see right there. They're trying to put the warhead under that. We've seen that all through this. Again this is in Sawtelle Sharkia around Beaufort Castle. You can see on different angles the castle up on the hilltop and that strategic ridge ridge that you're seeing. This is another Merkava that's going to get hit. Um from above You can see that one and this one is going to target the commander's hatch also something that we have seen a quality strike target right on the commander's hatch and the periscope that he uses for vision that the the tank commander uses for vision. You'll see it here as the again the drone coming in under full control and then aiming right at the commander's hatch. There's the commander's hatch there. You can see. Um so significant hits and these were all part of 115 FPV drone ops 30 of them versus tanks in the three weeks before the ceasefire during the battle of Sawtelle Sharkia. That's another D9 there that you're seeing. It's camouflage but obviously not camouflage enough for to not be destroyed cuz these are being destroyed for sure. There's a tank. You can see the barrel on the top of [clears throat] that that that outs that as a tank. I think this is a a Humvee under uh under another camo cover. Yeah, they got another one another Humvee Humvee again is basically 100% destruction rate with an anti-tank missile uh anti-tank rocket warhead hitting that and then here we see a burning tank. So again, battle damage assessment from a previous strike and you're seeing soldiers running away from that. There's actually they marked three there's actually four soldiers. You can see two go in each direction to try to evade. Unclear if that is just an anti-tank warhead or if there's fragmentation sleeves um wrapped around those warheads which we did see in a number of Hezbollah attacks um that would disperse outwards rather than um the direct dart that the anti-tank missile fires. Um let's look at let's look at that one more time. We got I I I put it up I one more time the or sorry just the 24 uh search tomorrow. That was confusing. Um yeah, this this is I put this in here twice just so we can watch it again cuz look at the burning at the back of the tank. So they have either exited out through their hatches at the top of the tank or they exited through the back door as it was burning. And as they're running away, they're hit with a follow-up drone strike and these kind of tactics uh are immediately going to be in play uh on Ali al-Tahir Ridge if the Israelis advance. The Israelis are planning to advance and they're planning for uh Hezbollah resistance on the hill. So we will follow that closely. This has been the resistance report on day 1,049 of Israel's genocidal war in Gaza.