Operation Spiderweb

I mean, one of the things that's been interesting is to see the expansion of cruise missile ballistic missile capabilities, including intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities, The Chinese now have plus the Russians, plus the North Koreans, including submarine launched.

You've got you've got drones that we've seen the Ukrainians during Operation Spider's Web get inside of Russia and conduct basically long range strike against Ukraine.

Airfields that have strategic bombers, you know, lots of other concerns about offensive cyber operations, disinformation.

I'm thinking like of the Chinese bolt typhoon operations getting malware in U.S. critical infrastructure systems across the U.S. homeland or, you know, the space, some of the space based weapons that some of the U.S. adversaries are doing research and development on.

Or if you wanna use it for infrastructure.

Uh, when you think about the Olympic Games, you know, how do you make sure you don't have drones flying over and causing mayhem? Um, if you think about ports where we have a lot of challenges, how do you make sure that you don't have things coming in through the ports, um, that could be threats? Uh, when you look at, like, uh, Operation Spider Web, uh, over in the Ukraine, you know, sending over fiber optic, uh, UAVs that go and cause havoc, destroying, you know, $50 million, $100 million Russian assets using first-person-view drones that will, uh, you know, [laughs] on, uh, you know, tethered with, uh, fiber optics.

So you gotta be mindful of all those things, so from a counter-UAS perspective.

So that'll be something that we're showing at, uh, at that.

They continued to see more precision strikes against their energy infrastructure, against their nuclear triad.

There was Operation Spider Web.

There was assassinations of Russian leaders.

And so Putin sitting there saying like, OK, like Trump saying all the right things, but he's not reining in his own intelligence and military industrial complex anymore.

He appointed a new defense minister who's actually quite liked by most Ukrainians, including the protesters.

He's a veteran of the intelligence services who was responsible for some of the most daring attacks on Russian targets deep inside Russia, including this famous Operation Spiderweb that destroyed several Russian strategic bombers all the way up to Siberia.

And all of this came at the backdrop of an investigation or series of investigations that are being carried out by an independent anti-corruption authority in Ukraine.

And it's truly independent.

If you want to have the most imaginative and aggressive operations... then you will generally also have to hire and give considerable latitude to the sort of people who can come up with them.

You think of what Ukraine has carried out, some quite extraordinary operations, like the Operation Spiderweb, where a series of Russian airfields and strategic bombers were hit by drones.

which were driven by unsuspecting patsies in containers close to where the airfields were, at which point they were launched under control from inside Ukraine.

The operation it took to get the spare parts together, to have them assembled, to have them loaded into the dispenser systems within truck containers... and then to actually have people whom, frankly, you could dispose of, then drive them up to the airfields.

They require drone technology and they require drone logistics ability that comes from Starlink Elon Musk.

So why is this still going on? Why are they still getting logistical support from the West? Why is the West helping them in Operation Spider's Web and others where they literally sent 18 wheeler trucks deep inside of Russia and bomb their nuclear bomber fleet with it? Now, I've had a Ukrainian journalist on.

This guy said, oh, no, they're using those planes to attack Russia.

Here's the problem with that.

They require drone technology and they require drone logistics ability that comes from Starlink Elon Musk.

So why is this still going on? Why are they still getting logistical support from the West? Why is the West helping them in Operation Spider's Web and others where they literally sent 18 wheeler trucks deep inside of Russia and bomb their nuclear bomber fleet with it? Now, I've had a Ukrainian journalist on.

This guy said, oh, no, they're using those planes to attack Russia.

Here's the problem with that.