<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 6:40 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…<span class="m_8357082772072953858gmaildefault"> The Apache was brought down by a slow, cheap </span>Iranian Shahed-136<span class="m_8357082772072953858gmaildefault"> intelligent <u>DRONE</u> that cost about $20,000…</span> John K Clark</span></b></blockquote><br><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b><br><span class="m_8357082772072953858gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>The Shahed 136 carries a big-ass warhead.  Had that warhead detonated, the Apache would likely have broken up.  </font></i></span></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That depends on how far the drone was from the Apache<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>helicopter when it detonated.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> And </span>radar proximity fuses<span class="gmail_default" style=""> have been around since World War II. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg8357082772072953858"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_8357082772072953858WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>