S8 Ep715: PREVEW FOR LATER. GUEST: Rebecca Grant. Grant awards the US Navy an "outstanding" grade for recent exospheric missile intercepts and drone defenses, highlighting the air wings' excellence in protecting key targets against threats from Iran. (6)
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor, a conversation with Rebecca Grant of the Lexington Institute, grading the conduct of the U.S. Navy both on the sea and in the air these last weeks. |
| 0:12.7 | The word is used, outstanding. The explanation follows. Also, a capital E for excellence. Here's Rebecca. More tonight. |
| 0:22.8 | Outstanding. They're going to get an E for excellence. Here's Rebecca. More tonight. Outstanding. |
| 0:23.6 | They're going to get an outstanding, particularly the two airwings off the carriers. |
| 0:27.7 | We're going to be hearing that they've flown some very, very long missions, |
| 0:31.3 | taken out a lot of key targets, and probably done some pretty spectacular drone defense, |
| 0:37.0 | along with the strike group doing its amazing |
| 0:39.8 | sea-based anti-ballistic missile defense. You know, the shot that a destroyer probably got for the |
| 0:45.4 | missile that was headed out to the base of Diego Garcia, incredible exo-admospheric intercept, 65,000 feet, |
| 0:51.4 | beautifully done. Other intercepts, I think also the Navy protecting against missiles that were inbound |
| 0:57.0 | from Iran to Turkey. |
| 0:58.0 | So they are going to get what World War II called the Battle E for excellence. |
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