USS Gerald R. Ford: Western Air Defenses Utterly Failing?

Let's talk about the the USS Gerald R. Ford since you you brought it up there. Those sailors have been deployed something like 250 days or I I don't know the exact number, but or maybe it's 280 days. It's a long deploy it's it's way more than the normal six months, right? And also that aircraft carrier, they just turned off their transponder. Uh apparently that's being reported and it's parked off the coast of Israel, apparently to try to provide air cover to Israel. But already Iranian drones are are striking targets inside Israel that are not being intercepted by the the USS Gerald R. Ford. Nor are they being intercepted by the air dome or I'm sorry, Iron Dome uh interceptors, you know, the Patriot missile interceptors and so on. It looks like right now Western anti-air defenses are utterly failing. I mean even the fact that a major radar installation was taken out by Iran. Um what's up with US air defenses? Look, it looks like they're just landing punches and and and the and the uh the defense just got its fist hanging by its side, limply by its side. I mean, they they may ...