Trump is hailing his military success. But drones have exposed a deadly US weakness

These attacks “demonstrate a deliberate targeting pattern of radar, communications arrays, air base infrastructure and aircraft by Iran”, said Christoph Bergs, research analyst for air power at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) think-tank in London....Iran’s tactics must prompt a rethink of how the US approaches air defence, experts say. “The losses and damage at these bases, especially to one-way strike drone attacks, demonstrate the urgent need to integrate sufficient and scalable modern short-range air defence systems, cost-effective counter-drone systems and passive hardening measures at forward air bases for this sort of event,” said Bergs.