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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="11977671" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="chaparral-fire" source="Orion">Chaparral Fire</keyword> is currently burning in both Riverside and San Diego counties.</li><li>On August 29, Cal <keyword id="11895343" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fire" source="Orion">Fire</keyword> reported that the blaze is 10% contained.</li><li>The Caldor Fire outside of Sacramento is Cal Fire's top priority.</li></ul>The Chaparral Fire ignited on Saturday afternoon in <keyword id="11977672" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="san-diego-county" source="Orion">San Diego County</keyword> and has burned more than 1,400 acres in both San Diego and Riverside counties, <a href="https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/28/chaparral-fire/">according to Cal Fire</a>.The cause of the fire is still being investigated.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CALFIRESANDIEGO/posts/4284294201619378">Post</a> by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/">CAL FIRE/San Diego County Fire</a>.An <a href="http://www.rvcfire.org/_Layouts/Incident%20Information/IncidentInfoDetail.aspx?4599">August 29 update</a> from the Riverside County Fire Department said that one firefighter received minor injuries, two structures were destroyed, and the fire has been 10% contained.Two evacuation areas have been designated on the southeastern corner of the Cleveland National Forest, according to <a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=79cf3b8d7797476d855ab096b06a0ada&amp;extent=-13081954.2982%2C3956229.6817%2C-13052143.8571%2C3973370.6853%2C1021002100">Cal Fire evacuation maps</a>."Since the beginning of the year, wildfires have burned more than 1.7 million acres in <keyword id="11892889" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="california" source="Orion">California</keyword>. While firefighters continue their battle on the current major wildfires, Cal Fire and fire departments across the state remain prepared for potential more significant wildfires due to critical fire <keyword id="11911086" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="weather" source="Orion">weather</keyword>," Cal Fire said in <a href="https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/nnfbvshr/california_statewide_summary-08292021.pdf">a statewide fire summary</a> on Sunday.The Caldor Fire, which has <a href="https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/8/14/caldor-fire/">burned 156,515 acres outside Sacramento</a> since August 14, has become firefighters' top priority as it approaches Lake Tahoe, Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter said at an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=235753634983434&amp;ref=watch_permalinklink">August 23 news conference</a>.

Wildfire season continues to scorch California as Chaparral Fire ignites in San Diego County and spawns 'firenadoes', videos show

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>US officials launched tear gas at migrants in a confrontation at a US border facility near Tijuana on Sunday, sparking sharp backlash as reports emerged of mothers and children fleeing the chemical.</li><li>Chaos erupted as migrants drew close to the San Ysidro port of entry border, where agents were dressed in riot gear and launched tear gas after migrants were reportedly seen attempting to breech sheet metal and barbed wire.</li><li>Agency heads issued statements after the clash defending the move as necessary, but civil rights organizations condemned the move as a use of excessive force.</li></ul>US border authorities fired tear gas in a clash with members of a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/migrant-caravan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">migrant caravan</a> after a group estimated to be in the hundreds stormed the busiest port of entry along the Mexico border on Sunday.A US Customs and Border Patrol spokesperson confirmed agents deployed "crowd dispersing devices," which included pepper ball launching systems and CS canisters, commonly known as tear gas, to deter the migrants.Chaos broke out as migrants got close to the border agents in riot gear and <a href="https://www.apnews.com/72efa4f1822241c2817a2fb6aa191fb4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> attempted to break through barbed wire and metal sheeting.Children screamed and coughed as clouds of gas spread out across hundreds of yards, <a href="https://www.apnews.com/72efa4f1822241c2817a2fb6aa191fb4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Associated Press reported</a>.Ana Zuniga, a 23-year-old from Honduras was carrying her 3-year old daughter, told the AP, "We ran, but when you run the smoke smothers you more."A CBP spokesperson said Sunday evening that officials were still gathering accounts from agents and officers who were deployed to the border but said there were "multiple instances of persons throwing projectiles at CBP personnel," and that border agents had apprehended people who attempted to cross the port of entry illegally.Despite claims from CBP and Department of Homeland Security, reports of mothers and young children with burning eyes running from the tear gas launched by US authorities sparked immediate reactions from civil rights organizations and across social media.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/border-closed-after-groups-of-migrants-stormed-us-border-2018-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">US reopens portion of Mexico border it shut down after firing tear gas at migrants when some stormed the port of entry</a>The ACLU San Diego chapter <a href="https://www.aclusandiego.org/aclu-responds-to-reports-cbp-is-using-tear-gas-against-migrants-at-the-border/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued a statement</a> from Deputy Political Director Lorella Praeli, who refuted the agency's claims of an appropriate response, calling the move "outrageous and inhumane.""Under no circumstances should CBP be using tear gas on children," Praeli wrote. "This show of violence is outrageous and inhumane. The migrants at our southern border are human beings, including mothers and small children, who are exercising their legal, human right to seek asylum."Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, criticized Border Patrol in a Monday morning <a href="https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1067055265277562882" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN appearance</a>, calling the use of tear gas and riot gear an "<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26/politics/donald-trump-robert-mueller-democrats-congress-g20-december/index.html?utm_term=image&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_content=2018-11-26T11%3A31%3A55" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overuse of force</a>.""No one wants a border patrol agent to be in danger," Gelernt said, responding to reports of migrants throwing rocks at officials. "But from what we know, this was an overuse of force. There are women and children out there. Using tear gas in this situation does not seem justified."Gelernt continued to say the project was investigating the incident and added: "This would not be the first time there was <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/excessive_force" target="_blank" rel="noopener">excessive force</a> by border patrol."A judge in Tucson, Arizona ruled last week that Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz was <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/11/25/670668243/a-not-guilty-verdict-absolves-border-patrol-of-cross-border-killing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not guilty of involuntary manslaughter</a> after firing 16 rounds through the border fence from Nogales, Arizona, into Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and killing 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez.Swartz claimed he was defending his life against Elena Rodriguez, who was throwing rocks.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><a href="https://twitter.com/amnestyusa/status/1066842437295972352" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amnesty International</a> condemned the use of tear gas in a tweet Sunday and assigned blame to President Donald Trump's administration, who recently announced the deployment of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-to-send-5000-troops-to-the-us-mexico-border-2018-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over 5,000 troops</a> to the border in anticipation of the caravan's long-anticipated arrival.Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Sunday that migrants' attempts to breach border obstacles and throwing things in the proximity of agents was "lawlessness" that necessitated the harsh response.Many of the migrants are <a href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/migrant-caravan-coming-to-us-border-history-size-2018-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fleeing violence, poverty, and corruption</a> in their home countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The first group started walking from the so-called Northern Triangle countries in October to seek a better life in the US.<h2>'Lives are really hanging in the balance here'</h2><a href="https://www.hrw.org/about/people/clara-long" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clara Long</a>, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch, said the government's massive presence at the border should deem techniques like tear gas unnecessary, but that it's a troubling sign that stems from Trump's extreme stance on migrants."In the context of a president that makes statements advocating illegal behavior by the government, blocking asylum seekers, not hearing their claims, and often very dehumanizing statements that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/border-closed-after-groups-of-migrants-stormed-us-border-2018-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cast them as criminals</a>, it becomes doubly and triply worrying that you have these agents that are using very questionable force on crowds on the other side of the border," Long told INSIDER.Cases that include agents claiming violent or lethal action as a <keyword id="6354810" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="defense">defense</keyword> against migrants who were throwing rocks across border structures are common, and often "highly suspect," Long said."It seems to me to be an escalation, and instead what the US should be doing is focusing on building capacity to hear claims and to adjudicate them fairly," Long said. "Instead it's doubling down on hard-line, repressive and violent tactics."Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-asylum-seekers-remain-in-mexico-migrant-caravan-2018-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">'All will stay in Mexico': Trump says the US will bar asylum-seekers from entering the country until judges approve their claims</a>Despite the refreshed spotlight on border agents, Long said the migrants' situation remains dire.Mexico said it will deport around 500 immigrants who left their temporary shelter to enter the US "violently" and "illegally," days after Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum's declared a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/tijuana-mayor-declares-humanitarian-crisis-over-migrants/2018/11/23/ab6db2ce-ef31-11e8-8b47-bd0975fd6199_story.html?utm_term=.735ecec9f23c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">humanitarian crisis</a> and requested United Nations aid after the city strained to accommodate the group of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-tijuana-mayor-declares-humanitarian-crisis-over-migrants-2018-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly 5,000 migrants at the border</a>.But the Trump administration is only processing about&#xa0;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-us-closes-busiest-mexico-border-crossing-for-several-hours-2018-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">100 asylum claims per day</a>. At that rate, it will likely take several months to consider the cases of the 10,000 migrants who are projected to arrive at the border near Tijuana."The best we can hope for is increased pressure on the agency for transparency, accountability, these calls should come from Congress," Long said. "But it's tragic because lives are really hanging in the balance here."<div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-scaramucci-trump-press-economy-2018-11">Anthony Scaramucci claims Trump isn't a nationalist: 'He likes saying that because it irks these intellectual elitists'</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Backlash erupts after the Trump administration fires tear gas at migrants in clash at the US-Mexico border

Welcome back to <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/10-things-in-politics">10 Things in Politics</a>. <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/10-things-in-politics">Sign up here to receive this newsletter</a>. Plus, download Insider's app for news on the go - <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id554260576">click here for iOS</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freerange360.mpp.businessinsider">here for Android.</a> Send tips to <a href="mailto:bgriffiths@insider.com">bgriffiths@insider.com</a> or tweet me at <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentGriffiths">@BrentGriffiths</a>.Apologies for the slight delay this morning. The <keyword id="11894123" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="newsletter" source="Orion">newsletter</keyword> will be in your inbox tomorrow at the usual time.Here's what we're talking about:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-venture-capital-opioid-nonprofit-tech-record-ohio-senate-2021-8">"Hillbilly Elegy" author JD Vance is running for Senate as a savior of the Rust Belt. Insiders and experts say otherwise.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/live-updates-hurricane-ida-louisiana-katrina-gulf-coast-forecast-storm-2021-8">Hurricane Ida lashes Louisiana as a 'catastrophic' Category 4 storm</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/unarmed-mental-health-response-teams-shortcomings-data">Unarmed mental health response teams may not be the solution to police violence progressive politicians believe they are</a></li></ul>With Phil Rosen.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-venture-capital-opioid-nonprofit-tech-record-ohio-senate-2021-8"></a>1. INSIDER INVESTIGATION: JD Vance is running for the Senate as the savior of the Rust Belt. Vance nurtured the image while writing and later promoting "Hillbilly Elegy," his best-selling memoir. But a detailed look beyond Vance's book reveals significant questions about his experience.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-venture-capital-opioid-nonprofit-tech-record-ohio-senate-2021-8">An Insider investigation found it's not clear what, if anything, Vance has achieved through his charity or his company.</a>A spokeswoman for Ohio's largest anti-opioid coalition said she never heard of the charity: Vance and his best friend from Yale founded Our Ohio Renewal in 2017 to help fight the epidemic. <ul><li>More details: In its first year, ​​Our Ohio Renewal's principal officer earned more in management fees than the company spent on programming. Someone familiar with its operations said the group was used to lobby state lawmakers to better direct services and support to relatives known as "kinship guardians."</li><li>The organization's problem wasn't even its spending: The nonprofit raised so little in each of the last three years - less than $50,000 a year - that it wasn't even required by the IRS to disclose its activities and finances. </li></ul>Vance's time as a VC draws mixed reviews: The Marine vet and Yale law grad has launched his own firm and spent two years working for a VC fund founded by former AOL chairman and CEO Steve Case. But he doesn't appear to have made much of an impact at Mithril, where he started just two months before "Hillbilly Elegy" was published.<ul><li>Former coworkers said he didn't close a single deal: "It never seemed like he was even working," one said. "It felt like his full-time job was the book." </li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-venture-capital-opioid-nonprofit-tech-record-ohio-senate-2021-8">Read more about how Vance's record and how his relationship with Peter Thiel continues to pay off.</a>2. Hurricane Ida hammers Louisana: New Orleans lost nearly all of its power due to the Category 4 storm that struck Lousiana on the 16th-anniversary of when Hurricane Katrina struck the area. <a href="https://www.insider.com/all-new-orleans-without-power-hurricane-ida-2021-8">The city is using generators to drain stormwater and pump drinking water.</a><ul><li>Latest on the storm: Today, Ida is projected to continue inland over portions of Louisiana and western Mississippi.<a href="https://www.insider.com/live-updates-hurricane-ida-louisiana-katrina-gulf-coast-forecast-storm-2021-8"> Follow our live updates</a>.</li></ul><div type="image" title="A man takes pictures of high waves along the shore of Lake Pontchartrain as Hurricane Ida nears, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, in New Orleans." height="2210" width="3315" msid="85768094" hostid="261"></div>Ida is so powerful that made the Mississippi flow backward: Supervising hydrologist Scott Perrien told CNN <a href="https://www.insider.com/hurricane-ida-made-the-mississippi-river-flow-backwards-2021-8">that flow reversals are "extremely uncommon."</a>3. US forces struck an ISIS-K linked suicide bomber: Officials said they thwarted another potential attack on the Kabul airport from the same group that claimed responsibility for killing 13 Americans and an estimated 169 Afghans. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/taliban-us-forces-struck-isis-k-terrorist-in-retaliation-for-kabul-airport-bomb-attack-2021-8">More on the strike.</a><ul><li>Biden meets with the families of the fallen: He paid his respects as the remains of the 13 Americans arrived at Dover Air Force Base. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-pays-respects-fallen-us-service-members-killed-afghanistan-2021-8">Five of the fallen service members were only 20 years old, having been born shortly before 9-11.</a></li></ul><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/08/27/us-service-members-killed-kabul-airport-names/">The dead includes 11 Marines, one soldier, and one sailor</a>, The Washington Post reports: Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, a Wyoming Marine, was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/marine-who-died-afghanistan-suicide-bombing-was-expecting-a-baby-2021-8">expecting his first child</a> in just a few weeks. Sgt. Nicole Gee, a California Marine, was photographed <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/marine-who-died-kabul-wrote-she-loves-job-days-attack-2021-8">just a few days ago holding an Afghan child</a>.<div type="image" title="Emergency call box with one button labeled &quot;mental health crisis&quot; and another button labeled &quot;crime&quot;; both buttons have wires directed towards one phone labeled &quot;police&quot; on a yellow background" height="1200" width="2401" msid="85768095" hostid="261"></div>4. Progressives want to deploy unarmed mental health response teams. Data say they won't help reduce police violence. Despite high-profile politicians vying for new response teams, Insider found that such units likely won't be dispatched in most crisis calls. That's because they are used only in situations deemed nonviolent, and the vast majority of calls that lead to police killings involve a person with a weapon. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/unarmed-mental-health-response-teams-shortcomings-data">Read the entire report, including what other approaches are showing promise.</a>5. There could be another 100,000 COVID deaths by December: Experts told the Associated Press the prediction can fluctuate based on how people behaving, with some saying it could be cut in half if people wear masks in public spaces. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-could-record-another-100000-covid-19-deaths-by-december-2021-8">More on the grim forecast. </a>5. Israelis and Palestinians hold biggest talks in years: Israeli Defense minister Benny Gantz met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, signaling a possible shift just days after Biden urged Israel to do more to help Palestinians, the Associated Press reports. Gantz's said Israel will do more to help strengthen the Palestinian economy.<a href="https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-israel-0527d5c16e3d41a3ad4665b41c083826"> This is believed to be the highest-level public meeting between the two sides since 2014.</a>7. Evictions loom following Supreme Court decision: In the Atlanta area, evictions filings are already piling up following the court's decision to throw out the Biden administration's ban on evictions during the pandemic, ruling that congressional action is necessary. While in New York, renters are running out of time waiting for long-delayed financial aid. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/28/supreme-court-eviction-housing/">More on how the situation is playing out throughout the country.</a>8. Wildfires continue to scorch California: The Chaparral Fire ignited on Saturday afternoon in San Diego County and has burned more than 1,400 acres in both San Diego and Riverside counties, according to Cal Fire. <a href="https://www.insider.com/wildfire-season-chaparral-fire-san-diego-county-2021-8">Since the beginning of the year, wildfires have burned more than 1.7 million acres in the state.</a><div type="image" title="Ed Asner" height="2000" width="3000" msid="85768097" hostid="261"></div>9. Remembering Ed Asner: Asner, the iconic actor who starred as Lou Grant in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," has died. He gained a new generation of fans with his turn as Santa Claus in "Elf" and the voice of the loveable curmudgeon Carl Fredricksen in Disney's "Up." <a href="https://www.insider.com/ed-asner-actor-up-elf-mary-tyler-moore-dead-91-2021-8">He was 91.</a> <div type="image" title="cow wisconsin drive-thru" height="469" width="625" msid="85768099" hostid="261"></div>10. Super-sized Moo: <a href="https://www.insider.com/cow-backseat-sedan-car-wisconsin-mcdonalds-drive-thru-2021-8">You have to see this hilarious video of a cow peering out of the backseat of a car at a McDonald's drive-thru in Wisconsin.</a>Today's trivia question: Thousands marched in DC over the weekend <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/march-on-for-voting-rights-rally-washington-watch-live-stream-today-2021-08-28/">to push for voting rights and to mark the anniversary of the March on Washington</a>. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his copy of his "I Have a Dream" speech to a security volunteer after delivering the now-iconic close to the march. What did that volunteer later become? Email your guess and a suggested question to me at <a href="mailto:bgriffiths@insider.com">bgriffiths@insider.com</a>.<ul><li>Friday's answer: Future President Ronald Reagan broke into the entertainment industry by covering the Iowa Hawkeyes and Iowa sports in the 1930s. Reagan waited in Des Moines before receiving the news that it was time to move to Hollywood to shot his first movie. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1980/09/30/midwest-fans-tuned-in-to-dutch/2ef5d22f-ccfa-4dfd-bbef-9011f778eba5/">Fittingly, his first screen credit was playing a radio reporter.</a></li></ul>

10 Things in Politics: JD Vance is no Rust Belt savior

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The devastating use of drones during the recent war between Armenia and Azerbaijan highlighted how modern aerial threats, such as drones, have evolved in recent years.</li><li>This is a particular problem for the US Army, which shrunk its air-defense arsenal after the Cold War and is now trying to rebuild it to counter new and emerging threats.</li></ul>The recent six-week war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Karabakh region left nearly 6,000 troops and civilians from <a href="https://mod.gov.az/en/news/list-of-servicemen-who-died-as-shehids-in-the-patriotic-war-34187.html" target="_top">bo</a><a href="https://mod.gov.az/en/news/list-of-servicemen-who-died-as-shehids-in-the-patriotic-war-34187.html" target="_top">t</a><a href="https://mod.gov.az/en/news/list-of-servicemen-who-died-as-shehids-in-the-patriotic-war-34187.html" target="_top">h</a> <a href="https://armenpress.am/eng/news/1037547.html" target="_top">sid</a><a href="https://armenpress.am/eng/news/1037547.html" target="_top">e</a><a href="https://armenpress.am/eng/news/1037547.html" target="_top">s</a> dead and hundreds of pieces of military hardware destroyed.Azeri drones caused much of that destruction. Hours of drone footage showed devastating precision strikes against Armenian targets and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/drones-in-armenia-azerbaijan-war-raises-doubt-about-tanks-future-2020-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reignited debate about the future of the tank</a>.The US Army was not part of the conflict, but it was a reminder of an inconvenient truth that the service has known for at least a decade: Its anti-air (AA) defenses are severely lacking.<h2>The air-defense arsenal</h2><div type="image" title="Army MIM-72 Chaparral air defense missile" height="639" width="800" msid="80001191" hostid="261"></div>The Soviet Union's collapse diminished the prospect of great-power war. With a lack of serious air threats, the Army got rid of many of its air-defense units and directed their resources elsewhere.As a result, its air-defense arsenal, especially ground-based AA platforms like <keyword id="10510012" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="short-range-air-defense">short-range air defense</keyword> (SHORAD) systems, is now much smaller.Three of the Army's primary ground-based AA systems - the MIM-23 Hawk, the MIM-72 Chaparral, and the M163 VADS - were retired between 1991 and 1998. From 2004 to 2018, the US Army <a href="https://warisboring.com/the-u-s-army-needs-more-anti-aircraft-weapons-and-fast/" target="_top">reduced</a> the number of SHORAD battalions from 26 to nine.In 2004, the last armored AA system, the M6 Linebacker, was phased out. Today, the Army's only air-defense systems are the shoulder-launched <keyword id="2652765" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Stinger">Stinger</keyword> man-portable air-defense (MANPAD) system, the AN/TWQ-1 Avenger, the MIM-104 Patriot, and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.The Stinger and Avenger - the Avenger is just a wheeled launch system with eight Stingers - are designed to engage aircraft up to about 10,000 feet. The <a href="https://www.army-technology.com/projects/patriot/" target="_top">Patriot</a> and <a href="https://isdp.eu/publication/korea-thaad/" target="_top">THAAD</a> are designed to intercept aircraft and missiles at up to 73,000 feet for the Patriot and up to 93 miles for THAAD.<h2>Faster, cheaper threats</h2><div type="image" title="In this Monday, Jan. 13, 2020 photo, U.S. Soldiers stand near their residence area that was destroyed by Iranian bombing at Ain al-Asad air base, in Anbar, Iraq." height="3744" width="5616" msid="80001193" hostid="261"></div>US Air Force fighter jets have been tasked with eliminating threats those systems can't hit - especially other enemy fighters and bombers. They've done well against the largely inferior air forces of Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yugoslavia, but the threats are changing."Our capabilities against adversary aircraft are, in general, very good." Mark Cancian, a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and <keyword id="6356001" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="international">International</keyword> Studies and a former Marine Corps colonel, told Insider.But the biggest aerial threats of the future are not enemy fighter-bombers. "The two big ones are drones and cruise missiles," Cancian said, adding that "there are very real concerns" about those threats.In January, Iran launched more than a dozen cruise missiles at two Iraqi bases housing US personnel. None of the missiles were shot down or intercepted, and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-tbi-exclusive-idUSKBN2041ZK" target="_top">their impact</a> left more than 100 servicemen with mild traumatic brain injuries.That was one of <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-aramco-attacks-iran-exclusive-idUSKBN1YN299" target="_top">several missile</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/drones-used-to-drop-bombs-on-us-troops-in-syria-2020-3" target="_top">drone attacks</a> across the Middle East in recent years. Drones and cruise missiles are smaller, cheaper, and operate at lower altitudes than jets, making it easier for adversaries to use them in large numbers. They can also be very fast - especially cruise missiles - which makes intercepting them with Air Force fighters not only difficult but economically unsustainable.Like the Air Force, the Army is reluctant to use more sophisticated AA weaponry against such small, inexpensive, and often hard-to-hit targets. Army officials have said that using a $3 million Patriot missile against a drone that costs a few hundred dollars isn't "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-ally-used-3-million-dollar-patriot-missile-to-shoot-down-a-200-dollar-drone-2017-3">a good economic exchange ratio</a>.""The problem with drones is they tend to be very cheap, so there's no point in firing a $100,000 missile at a $1,000 drone," Cancian said. "You really need something else."<h2>Rival investment</h2><div type="image" title="Buk M2 air-defense missile" height="2332" width="3500" msid="80001196" hostid="261"></div>While the US has been downgrading its ground-based AA defenses, its rivals have been investing in them heavily - largely because of US airpower dominance.Alongside larger systems like the <a href="https://missilethreat.csis.org/defsys/s-300/" target="_top">S-300</a> and <a href="https://missilethreat.csis.org/defsys/s-400-triumf/" target="_top">S-400</a>, Russia has a number of tracked and wheeled AA platforms - most notably the <a href="https://tass.com/defense/1237777" target="_top">Buk</a> and <a href="https://missilethreat.csis.org/defsys/tor/" target="_top">Tor</a> missile systems, the <a href="https://weaponsystems.net/system/60-2S6+Tunguska" target="_top">2K22 Tunguska</a>, and the <a href="https://missilethreat.csis.org/defsys/pantsir-s-1/" target="_top">Pantsir S-1</a>. In addition to missiles, the Tunguska and Pantsir have 30 mm autocannons capable of hitting low-flying targets. The systems together <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pantsir-s1-makes-russian-air-defenses-stronger-2018-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">create a layered defense</a>.Russia is also developing a new AA artillery system, the <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/russias-derivatsiya-pvo-can-destroy-cruise-missiles-drones-and-more-168087" target="_top">Derivatsiya-PVO</a>. Designed specifically to shoot down drones and cruise missiles, the system is armed with a 57 mm main gun capable of firing smart munitions that can explode mid-flight.Russia <a href="https://parstoday.com/en/news/west_asia-i123870-russia%E2%80%99s_air_defenses_repel_drone_attack_on_hmeimim_base_in_syria" target="_top">claim</a><a href="https://parstoday.com/en/news/west_asia-i123870-russia%E2%80%99s_air_defenses_repel_drone_attack_on_hmeimim_base_in_syria" target="_top">s</a> its AA systems have beaten back dozens of drone attacks on its bases in Syria this year, after <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/world/middleeast/syria-russia-drones.html" target="_top">first </a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/world/middleeast/syria-russia-drones.html" target="_top">experiencing such attacks</a> in 2018. Russian AA systems <a href="https://www.rand.org/blog/2020/07/drone-era-warfare-shows-the-operational-limits-of-air.html" target="_top">do not always triumph</a> over drones and missiles, but Moscow's continuing investment on top of systems it already has <a href="https://www.iiss.org/blogs/research-paper/2020/12/defeating-threat-air-defences-the-return-of-the-dead" target="_blank" rel="noopener">give it an advantage</a>.China also has <a href="http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-PLA-IADS-SAMs.html" target="_top">a number</a> of ground-based AA defenses, most notably the <a href="https://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/missile-threat-and-proliferation/todays-missile-threat/china/china-anti-access-area-denial/hq-9/" target="_top">HQ-9</a> medium-to-long-range AA system, as well as the <a href="https://www.army-technology.com/projects/pgz95-spaaa-system/" target="_top">Type 95</a> and <a href="https://www.armyrecognition.com/china_artillery_vehicles_and_weapon_systems_uk/pgz-07_twin_35mm_self-propelled_anti-aircraft_gun_data_sheet_specifications_description_pictures.html" target="_top">Type 09</a> self-propelled AA artillery systems.<h2>Layered defense</h2><div type="image" title="US Army Stryker vehicle anti drone laser defense system" height="559" width="840" msid="80001199" hostid="261"></div>This is not to say that the US Army isn't addressing what has been called a "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/army-wants-to-boost-missile-defense-close-missile-gap-2020-3" target="_top">modern-day missile gap</a>." In fact, the opposite is the case.The Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group <a href="https://warontherocks.com/2020/12/how-the-army-out-innovated-the-islamic-states-drones/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">began developing</a> counter-drone training, technology, and tactics in response to ISIS's use of small drones, and while the AWG is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/army-shutting-down-asymmetric-warfare-group-rapid-equipping-force-2020-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">being deactivated</a>, air and <keyword id="1608579" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="missile-defense">missile defense</keyword> was <a href="https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-military-forces-fy-2020-army" target="_blank" rel="noopener">among</a> the Army's top priorities in 2020 and is expected to remain so for the next four years.The Army has <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/army-stryker-shorad-testing-fielding/" target="_top">begun fielding</a> a new interim system, the IM-SHORAD Stryker, for its immediate AA needs. The <a href="https://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/defense-systems/multi-mission-launcher-mml/" target="_top">Indirect Fire Protection Capability</a> (IFPC) system, armed with the most recent AIM-9X Sidewinder missile, is also expected to enter service in the next few years. Soldiers in Texas are <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/13/army-activates-two-israeli-iron-dome-missile-defense-batteries-fort-bliss.html" target="_top">testing </a><a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/13/army-activates-two-israeli-iron-dome-missile-defense-batteries-fort-bliss.html" target="_top">Israel's</a><a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/13/army-activates-two-israeli-iron-dome-missile-defense-batteries-fort-bliss.html" target="_top"> Iron Dome system</a>, developed with US technology, as an interim cruise-missile defense.The Army is also looking at long-term solutions like <a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19460/u-s-army-forges-ahead-with-its-railgun-as-navys-commitment-to-the-tech-is-questioned" target="_top">rail guns</a>, <a href="https://breakingdefense.com/2020/08/army-starts-construction-on-laser-prototypes/" target="_top">direct</a><a href="https://breakingdefense.com/2020/08/army-starts-construction-on-laser-prototypes/" target="_top">ed</a><a href="https://breakingdefense.com/2020/08/army-starts-construction-on-laser-prototypes/" target="_top">-energy weapons</a> and <a href="https://www.army.mil/article/183279/counter_uas_vehicles_sent_to_europe_for_experimentation" target="_top">jamming technology</a>. Those will take longer to develop and field, but it is clear that the Army is prioritizing air and missile defense and intends to counter future air threats with a variety of systems."This is not a single technology or single set of technologies that will be fielded." Cancian said. "It's going to be a series of technologies."Those systems will have to work together to stop what the Army sees coming."Where the Army's going to is a layered defense," Gen. James McConville, the Army's top officer, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/army-wants-to-boost-missile-defense-close-missile-gap-2020-3" target="_top">told lawmakers</a> in March. "We want to be able to tie every sensor to shooter."

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