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Nov 4, 2026
Dan GelernterHOST
Okay.
Dan GelernterHOST
Does the Apache count? No, the Apache does not count.
Dan GelernterHOST
For one thing, it's...
Dan GelernterHOST
Why not?
Simon WhistlerHOST
Army aviation makes the point even faster.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Poland is replacing its aesthetically pleasing, but utterly shagged and clapped out, commie-inherited Mi-24 fleet with 96 Apaches, specifically the AH-64E variant.
Simon WhistlerHOST
And when they are all procured, that figure will make Poland the second biggest Apache operator on Earth, behind only the United States.
Simon WhistlerHOST
From there, the point is simple.
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Simon WhistlerHOST
Air defense then adds another layer.
Simon WhistlerHOST
Roughly 50 Patriot batteries, THAAD above that for ballistic missile defense, Avenger and Striker M-SHORAD below it for the short range problem, plus Sentinel radars and counter drone systems to spot and swat those annoying bastards out of the sky.
Simon WhistlerHOST
The aviation then adds another layer, with the Congressional Budget Office, as of 2023, placing the fleet at about 3,900 aircraft, split between roughly 2,100 Blackhawks, 700 Apaches, 500 Lakotas, and 400 Chinooks.
Simon WhistlerHOST
And it's not just rotorcraft either, as they dip their toes into the fixed-wing world too, operating roughly 200 fixed-wing aircraft, the bulk of them C-12 Kuron passenger and utility transports.
Paul BettencourtHOST
You've got a bullet.
Paul BettencourtHOST
30-millimeter bullet from the Apache.
Paul BettencourtHOST
I flew
Daniel FloresGUEST
the Apache.
Daniel FloresGUEST
Oh, you flew the Apache.
Daniel FloresGUEST
I also flew the Huey.
Daniel FloresGUEST
You did as a practice or what was it? Yeah, in training.
Daniel FloresGUEST
And then I flew the Cobra.
Bill BuppertGUEST
In 2003 at the Battle of Karbala in Iraq, over 31...
Bill BuppertGUEST
AH-64 Apaches, you're probably familiar with this.
Bill BuppertGUEST
Yep.
Bill BuppertGUEST
Not one came back without battle damage.
Bill BuppertGUEST
In 2003 at the Battle of Karbala in Iraq, over 31...
Bill BuppertGUEST
AH-64 Apaches, you're probably familiar with this.
Bill BuppertGUEST
Yep.
Bill BuppertGUEST
Not one came back without battle damage.
John FoleyGUEST
for the Taiwan army.
John FoleyGUEST
They had purchased AH-64 Apache E models and UH-60 Mike Blackhawks.
John FoleyGUEST
And the company I was working for was responsible for providing the team that went over and did all the training, soup to nuts.
John FoleyGUEST
So ground school instructor.
John FoleyGUEST
It was founded by a gentleman by the name of Joe Peebles.
John FoleyGUEST
Joe was in the army for, I think, six years.
John FoleyGUEST
He was an Apache mechanic and then he was a Chinook door gunner.
John FoleyGUEST
and then actually got out and was working for a contracting company in Afghanistan as a Chinook mechanic in Afghanistan.
SweeneyHOST
They have all the armament, the guns, the ammo, the bullets, and all of those things combined together.
SweeneyHOST
Tanks, helicopters, Apaches, intercontinental ballistic missiles, riot gear, the equivalent of their SWAT teams.
SweeneyHOST
They have every bit of infrastructure to stop this.
SweeneyHOST
And when you look at it through that understanding, you can see what this truly is, which is a slow but steady rebellion and takeover and mutiny from within.
Vishnu SomHOST
It's sad, in a sense, because it's a wonderful platform.
Vishnu SomHOST
But apart from the Apache, we don't have...
Vishnu SomHOST
And I suppose the General Atomics drones which are coming in...
Vishnu SomHOST
Offensive platforms.
Vishnu SomHOST
Chinook.
Vishnu SomHOST
Chinook.
Vishnu SomHOST
The Apache.
Vishnu SomHOST
Apache.
Moshe HaCohenHOST
But when you're talking eight or 10,000 soldiers, you don't need, what do you need, 10 on a side? Well, you keep about four jets flying overhead at all times.
Moshe HaCohenHOST
So if any soldiers come near them, they blow them up with the jets, okay? And then you have Apaches around there.
Moshe HaCohenHOST
And what do they do? They can extract.
Moshe HaCohenHOST
You know, basically it's dangerous, but it's not that dangerous.
Moshe HaCohenHOST
Could they lay artillery on them? Yes.
Moshe HaCohenHOST
Couldn't they send drones at them? Yes.
Moshe HaCohenHOST
That's why you'd want to have Apaches to blow the drones out of the sky.
Moshe HaCohenHOST
So if you had the jets and the Apaches and you sent a bunch of guys there and they had, you know, squad machine guns with thousands of rounds, they had shoulder-fired missiles, all kinds of explosives, secure comms, everything, you know, you could take these missile cities out.
Malcolm NanceHOST
The Iranians also now claiming that they have modified their Shahid 358 high altitude loitering drones so that they can detect F-35 aircraft through their thermal signature and drop down on them and intercept them and shoot them down.
Malcolm NanceHOST
We know that it was likely it may have been No, we know a Shahid loitering drone 358 did shoot down an AH-64 Apache over the Strait of Hormuz.
Malcolm NanceHOST
And the worst part is, for the Iranians, it didn't explode.
Malcolm NanceHOST
It hit in the console between the pilot and the navigator, flaming its engine there.
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