I usually just share incoming footage and leave it at that, but I will just go ahead and add… yeah, I hope those are cheap munitions we’re using for hitting these individual drones in 1s and 2s as well.
The cost-benefit analysis during this war has been so very asymmetrically skewed.
USJiveTurkey on
Wonder what they’re hitting them with?
Is the US able to use low flying aircraft over most of Iran now? Seems like that would still be risky from manpads.
Edit: JDAMs must be highly used at this point, right? I think I read we have over 500k of those. Very possible that’s what this is with a drone doing surveillance.
MutedAdvisor9414 on
How many of them are decoys?
No_Worldliness_7106 on
If I was a member of the IRGC you know what I’d be doing? Putting about a billion wooden frames and painting them to look like that. Not saying these are decoys or not, but if I was digging in for the long haul, I’d have so many of decoys wasting the enemies munitions and wait for the enemy to bomb them all and hope they’d give up after they spend about 2 billion dollars blowing up 100,000 dollars of lumber and paint.
N33DL on
The first drone had another nearby to the upper left. I’m surmising this is early war footage maybe just being released.
Nero92 on
Wonder what’s worth more, the one way drone or the missle used to take one of them out?
Motor-Profile4099 on
Having to resort to bombing single one use drones is not really a good look. How many hundreds or thousands of those does Iran have?
BusterStarfish on
I’m really beginning to think some of these are just AI
non_standard_model on
Why does the laser pointer get blurred out in some of these videos? Are they nervous about the frequency or signal being decoded?
As to the decoy issue: drones are very cheap and a fiberglass mockup of a drone is even cheaper.
If you think about it, for every three drones they manufacture, they could easily set aside one fiberglass drone airframe for decoy purposes. This would be very cheap for them to do, require no change in their manufacturing process and be almost indistinguishable from an actual drone.
The issue for the US is that the Iranians could likely continue this effort indefinitely, even with very minimal levels of technology or expertise available.
retroly on
If I was iranian I would be churning out decoy drones by the thousand.
abecomstock on
The cost of taking out these cheap drones is insane
H874Snooze on
One would hope they’re using equally cost effective munitions to blow these cheap things up.
Undd91 on
The cost to destroy every single drone they can find this way is mind boggling. Especially given the cost to produce these drones is minimal.
Feel for the US tax payer.
padizzledonk on
If it were me, id have the world market in inflatables, lumber and paint and bleed my enemies dry for the long haul
Not saying thats what they are, but boy i wouldnt be surprised if a lot if the shit thats getting hit are just cheap decoys
Pretty sure i saw somewhere a while ago that they painted some helicopters and planes and shit on the ground and they got hit by bombs lol
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I usually just share incoming footage and leave it at that, but I will just go ahead and add… yeah, I hope those are cheap munitions we’re using for hitting these individual drones in 1s and 2s as well.
The cost-benefit analysis during this war has been so very asymmetrically skewed.
Wonder what they’re hitting them with?
Is the US able to use low flying aircraft over most of Iran now? Seems like that would still be risky from manpads.
Edit: JDAMs must be highly used at this point, right? I think I read we have over 500k of those. Very possible that’s what this is with a drone doing surveillance.
How many of them are decoys?
If I was a member of the IRGC you know what I’d be doing? Putting about a billion wooden frames and painting them to look like that. Not saying these are decoys or not, but if I was digging in for the long haul, I’d have so many of decoys wasting the enemies munitions and wait for the enemy to bomb them all and hope they’d give up after they spend about 2 billion dollars blowing up 100,000 dollars of lumber and paint.
The first drone had another nearby to the upper left. I’m surmising this is early war footage maybe just being released.
Wonder what’s worth more, the one way drone or the missle used to take one of them out?
Having to resort to bombing single one use drones is not really a good look. How many hundreds or thousands of those does Iran have?
I’m really beginning to think some of these are just AI
Why does the laser pointer get blurred out in some of these videos? Are they nervous about the frequency or signal being decoded?
As to the decoy issue: drones are very cheap and a fiberglass mockup of a drone is even cheaper.
If you think about it, for every three drones they manufacture, they could easily set aside one fiberglass drone airframe for decoy purposes. This would be very cheap for them to do, require no change in their manufacturing process and be almost indistinguishable from an actual drone.
The issue for the US is that the Iranians could likely continue this effort indefinitely, even with very minimal levels of technology or expertise available.
If I was iranian I would be churning out decoy drones by the thousand.
The cost of taking out these cheap drones is insane
One would hope they’re using equally cost effective munitions to blow these cheap things up.
The cost to destroy every single drone they can find this way is mind boggling. Especially given the cost to produce these drones is minimal.
Feel for the US tax payer.
If it were me, id have the world market in inflatables, lumber and paint and bleed my enemies dry for the long haul
Not saying thats what they are, but boy i wouldnt be surprised if a lot if the shit thats getting hit are just cheap decoys
Pretty sure i saw somewhere a while ago that they painted some helicopters and planes and shit on the ground and they got hit by bombs lol