{"id":4276,"date":"2026-06-18T21:51:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T01:51:38","slug":"baby-baby-baby-youre-out-of-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4276","title":{"rendered":"Baby, Baby, Baby, You&#8217;re Out Of Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">10 x 18 inch medium-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/outofreapers\/outofreapers150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 832kb<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/outofreapers\/outofreapers150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/outofreapers\/outofreapers650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I didn&#8217;t even bother to contain my glee<\/strong> as I read the news of US and Israeli stocks of missiles and drones dwindling to rock-bottom levels as the US and Israel pissed it away on decoys, empty buildings and other bum targets in Iran this past March and April.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Still, I didn&#8217;t think the US had lost <em>quite <strong>that<\/strong><\/em> much. I was genuinely surprised \u2013 and delighted \u2013 to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/outofreapers\/washtimesA1Jun1626.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">front page of the Washington <em>Times<\/em><\/a> the other day. One third gone, no active production lines running, no organized plans to fund more production&#8230; oh, holy shit, I can&#8217;t pretend I&#8217;m not enjoying this. I&#8217;m no expert on logistics, engineering, supply chains or any of that other cool shit, but I still feel pretty sure that the next run of Reaper drones will involve rubber bands and balsa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">I hear the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2026\/06\/15\/dzbm-j15.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC matches<\/a> were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenklippenstein.com\/p\/why-military-was-at-the-ufc-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pretty good,<\/a> though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">10 x 18 inch medium-res <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/outofreapers\/outofreapers150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 832kb<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 x 18 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 832kb I didn&#8217;t even bother to contain my glee as I read the news of US and Israeli stocks of missiles and drones dwindling to rock-bottom levels as the US and Israel pissed it away on decoys, empty buildings and other bum targets in Iran this past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,762,9],"tags":[469,1548,381,1557,1060],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-trumpism","category-war-and-peace","tag-drones","tag-iran-war","tag-pentagon","tag-reaper","tag-usaf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}