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Russia's Jiran long-range drones have evolved from piston engine models to jet-powered variants, the Jiran 4 and the Jiran 5, pushing speeds over 300 kilometers an hour. Ukraine's air defenses, which are heavily reliant on mobile firing groups and cheap interceptor drones, was built for slower targets. The speed upgrade slashes detection and reaction time, rendering these low-cost defenses largely ineffective. They force Ukraine to use expensive full-fledged surface-to-air missiles, which is like, what, $2 million a pop. And they're running low already because of the war in Iran. Mixing, and then what Russia's doing is mixing low-cost piston drones, the slower drones, I assume that is, with the fast jet-powered variants, Jiran-4 and Jiran-5. And they use decoys as well to overwhelm the radar systems on the Ukrainian side, and being able to strike a lot more targets consistently. After Russia's success, Iran is seeking modernized Russian variants of the drones. So Iran's looking at having similar drones, which would cause havoc in the Middle East for the Americans and Gulf countries Because they struggling with the piston ones and piston engine models let alone a jet model that the Ukrainians are struggling with. So I can't even imagine what that would do to the Persian Gulf. And even the US and China are also adopting the Russian doctrine of rapid mass production, continuous battlefield feedback and swift iteration. What can you tell us about those drones and how much of a difference are they making? It's a huge difference. I mean, you look at these Garin 4 and 5 drones, and by the way, this week there was Ukrainian air defense operators that were quoted in the media saying that they tracked some of these Garin 5s going up to 800 kilometers per hour. It's insane. You know, Ukraine has these older mobile air defense networks that they could occasionally intercept Russian drones with, but these are just unstoppable. You know, these new drones are too fast. The videos that we're seeing of them, they're highly mobile and agile in the air. They can avoid air defenses very well.