cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10902382
🇮🇷 | The IRGC says it downed the Hermes-900 drone intact and fully armed using a ‘modern air defense system’ and is now under the control of aerospace experts and engineers for further examination.
i don’t see any bullet holes or shrapnel marks, do you?
did they scramble its signal to bring it down? is iran running drone jammers we don’t know about?
if they got lucky and it’s not that, it’s still really bad for the US, iran will definitely get a lot out of stripping this thing down and seeing what makes it tick
otoh, if they DO have effective drone jamming… the US military makes up for the shortfall of trained pilots (a problem of expense and scarcity of talent) by using these things en masse… if that’s no longer reliable then strike missions will increasingly have to be flown by pilots we don’t have, at cost and maximum risk to loss of assets and loss of life (because you never send one piloted aircraft, but you nearly always send one and only one drone)
Big net
Net cannons work so well in cartoons i bet it’s that
painted clouds on the side of a mountain?
Wile Al-Coyote
city-sized fly swatter
Girl drone with lipstick and a bow that the boy drone went hubba hubba and tricked it into crashing
Years ago they jammed one of the US’ stealth drones and landed it safely on their airfield to study and reverse engineer. Iran is very capable of jamming drones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident