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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Things are starting to look a little alarming on Capitol Hill. In a closed-door briefing, Sec. Pete Hegseth and Sen. Tim Kaine told lawmakers that Iran’s Shahed drones are a major headache. They fly low and slow, which makes them very hard to intercept. And the math behind it is worrying people. Iran can build around 100 drones a month for about $35,000 each. The U.S. only produces about 6 or 7 interceptors a month, and each one costs roughly 10× more. You can do the math on that. Sources on Capitol Hill also say the U.S. burned through about 5 years’ worth of Tomahawk missiles in just the first 3 days. So to close that gap, you need money, factories, and engineers. That’s why the Pentagon is asking Congress for a $50 billion emergency budget, while Trump is pushing Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to ramp Tomahawk production past 1,000 missiles a year. Source: Business Basics YT