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#Preview: Fom a much longer conversation with Patrick Tucker, Defense One, re the IDF plans for drones in urban warfare.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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#Preview: Fom a much longer conversation with Patrick Tucker, Defense One, re the IDF plans for drones in urban warfare.

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0:00.0

What does home mean to you? I'm Jimmy Femarewa, writer, broadcaster, and restaurant critic.

0:06.4

And I've been speaking to well-known names about what home means to them.

0:10.6

And it was in the East End, it was in Burmese, when Burmese was rough.

0:13.6

I remember thinking, that the boys are going to fancy me.

0:16.4

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0:22.1

and you may get a heart attack.

0:23.9

That's where's home really. With me, Jimmy Femarewa.

0:27.4

Find it wherever you're listening to this.

0:30.1

Speaking with Patrick Tucker of Defense One, a long conversation about drones,

0:36.1

drones used by Hamas, drones, and the history of how drones have grown over the last 20 years

0:41.9

to be part of the battlefield. And especially about the preparation that the IDF has done

0:48.0

over the last year. With drones in the Nagav, Patrick Tucker describes a seminar, a conference

0:56.0

that was held in the Nagav in September of 2022, and how the IDF is thinking about drones into

1:02.3

especially an urban environment, which is likely to be what is ahead in Gaza.

1:08.8

This isn't how they're going to do it, but it might be a piece of the larger story of how to

1:13.2

solve Hamas. With drones, drones to communicate, drones to identify, drones to analyze material.

1:20.7

The scented Patrick explain.

1:24.7

Take for a second everything that we're learning about the use of drones and warfare from

1:28.4

crane. 2014 Russians were using drones in sort of the way people used planes in World War One.

1:35.5

Find targets, report back and target positions, and then fires would hit the targets.

1:41.2

2021, we see Ukrainians do something similar to very effect and ramp up their own ability asymmetrically

1:50.6

to punch by their way and counter a much larger force. What we're seeing now, Hamas acting a little

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