00:00A new report from CNAS says the U.S. should be prioritizing counter-drone
00:04defense capabilities to respond to Chinese invasion of Taiwan. What's your
00:08take on this? Okay, because the quantity of Chinese drone is too many, so I think
00:14his suggestion is to tell us that we should not only focus on how to hard
00:20kill, but also need to put our attention on how to make the soft kill in the
00:27drones. Something like the ESM, like electronic warfare, like using the
00:33jamming or anything to destroy the control line or their linkage of the
00:40control. So to Taiwan, if we want to defend such a quantity of the Chinese
00:48drones, I think the hard kill and the soft kill are both the same, both are all the
00:55same very important. The report also says U.S. forces often use missiles costing
00:59hundreds of thousands to intercept the drones that's probably worth just $50,000.
01:03Does this suggest drones often provides attackers a better advantage? Yes, that is
01:10totally right, because the drone is very cheap, but your air defense missile and
01:15even a small one or bigger one or the price of the defense missile are very
01:19expensive. So to Taiwan, the best way is need to develop our soft kill
01:27capabilities, soft kill like jamming, like cutting the linkage of the control,
01:35something like this. What are the major differences between the U.S. and China in
01:39drone developments today? Right now, the problem is the capability of production. U.S.
01:45government or U.S. armed forces, they develop drones, they are all focused on
01:51military issues or on military problems, but Chinese launch or develop their UAVs or
01:59drones might focus on their domestic civilians requirement, but their domestic
02:09civilian requirements market is huge. So you know anything, any weapon they're
02:15developing or something that requires money, Chinese market could raise the
02:21sufficient money to Chinese drones. That's the biggest difference.
02:25How my U.S. efforts to strengthen its drone defenses help Taiwan?
02:29I think the best way is technology. I mean, because of hardware, hard kill, yeah, it's
02:36very high prices, high value. You need to buy a lot of missiles or a lot of
02:43drones to defend yourself, but if you can successfully developing the soft kill
02:50champs like jamming, like, you know, how to hire their UAVs or make their control
03:00system become useless. This is more easier than hardware.
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