{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6583019ebbd71a00175001c8/6a22e82842338a3b4d13370d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Iran’s drones have reshaped warfare. Can the US catch up?","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6583019ebbd71a00175001c8/1780672501674-d2d94329-9cfc-4797-a398-1ed4d3c617e1.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>How did heavily sanctioned Iran create a drone so cheap, deadly and effective that everyone from Russia to the US has copied it?</p><p><br></p><p>From the Gulf being inundated with attacks by Iranian Shaheds to Ukraine finding innovative new ways to counter the Russian version, Tehran has mass-produced a strategic weapon that has challenged traditional Western air-defence thinking.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>To look at how Iran did it, what makes the Shahed so brutal and how to counter it, guest host from the Ukraine: the Latest team Sophie O’Sullivan speaks to Mykola Bielieskov, research fellow at the Kyiv-based National Institute for Strategic Studies, and Peter Lee, co-Director of the Centre for Defence, Risk and Resilience at Britain’s University of Portsmouth.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus, Sophie covers the latest major updates from the region, including Hezbollah’s rejection of the Israel-Lebanon deal as “Satan’s dream” and news of a secret deployment of elite Israeli military units to Azerbaijan.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Highlights</p><ul><li>Iran’s cheap but deadly drones have reshaped warfare. Can the US catch up?</li><li>Why everyone from Russia to the US are copying the Shahed</li></ul><p><br></p><p>CONTRIBUTORS:</p><p>Sophie O’Sullivan, guest host and producer Ukraine: the Latest</p><p>Mykola Bielieskov, research fellow at National Institute for Strategic Studies @MBielieskov</p><p>Peter Lee, professor at the University of Portsmouth</p><p><br></p><p>Producer: Phil Atkins</p><p>Executive Producers: Venetia Rainey &amp; Louisa Wells</p><p><br></p><p>► Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day's biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk/fromtheeditor</p><p>► EMAIL US: Contact the team on battlelines@telegraph.co.uk&nbsp;</p><p>► GET THE LATEST HEADLINES: Find all our latest Iran coverage here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/iran-war/</p>","author_name":"The Telegraph"}