MSNBC’s Malcolm Nance Tells Dean Obeidallah Fighter Jets Aren’t the ‘Game-Changer’ in Ukraine — Send Reapers
MSNBC national security analyst Malcolm Nance told SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah supplying MiGs to Ukraine wouldn’t be a “game-changer” against Russia — the U.S. should send reapers.
On Friday’s edition of The Dean Obeidallah Show, the host talked with Nance about the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Dean: How much of a game-changer would the [Polish MiG 29] fighter jets be–and since they’re old technology wouldn’t the Russians shoot them down?
Malcolm: Yeah, well, first of all, they’ve got MiG-29s, they [Russians] have been shooting aircraft down, they have Su-27 [military aircraft] and Mig-29s– they’ve been flying these you might have heard me the first you MiG-29 qualified female fighter pilot Ukrainian Air Force was killed in air combat the other day. The Russians also have long-range surface-to-air missiles so the MiG-29 is not a game-changer.
Here’s what a game-changer looks like: We sell them MQ-9 Reaper drones. A Reaper drone can carry up to 16 Hellfires or they can have regular bombs on a 2000-pound laser-guided bomb. I just give’em Hellfires– you know it’s not hard to operate if you operated the [Turkish made] Bayraktar drone you can qualify on a Reaper in a matter of a few days. Or what we do is we let him take off, we ship them over let him assemble them let them do some practice rounds over a few days and give them all the Hellfire missiles they’ll need. Here’s another thing about the Hellfire: you lock the Hellfire on, once you shoot it you can go to the next tank you can shoot another Hellfire. You don’t have to guide it in it’s all on its own, baby.
Just imagine whole columns of [Russian] tanks going up and going, ‘hey that’s an MQ-9 Reaper drone not a Predator. The Reaper. Where did they get? Oh, snap Ukrainians are flying Reapers.’
Game changer! The Russians will panic at that point because it’s an advanced weapon system and why not, why not give it to. I mean they could operate within a matter of a week you could probably get four or five pilots and weapons operators qualified. Just truck ’em over in a truck that’s all ’cause they’re not that big, they’re small airplane size thing and let them assemble them you know with CIA subcontractors or Ukrainians that have already been training them. Let them take off and if they crash’em, they crash them but you know what you can always send more Reaper drones.
Watch the clip above, via SiriusXM.
