Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance
rbanffy
59 points
112 comments
June 11, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (10 comments)
spiderfarmer
Not by chance. Why is the US Army helicopter flying in another sovereign country? The USA is the Russia of the West nowadays.
inglor_cz
So, the US relearns all the lessons of the Russo-Ukrainian war the hard way? Choppers proved very vulnerable already in 2022. History often repeats itself. In a similar way, Great Powers like France refused to study the lessons of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 because it was something that happened in barbarian lands far away from glorious Europe, so it was obviously irrelevant to them, right? And then the shock of industrial warfare almost shattered the French army in summer 1914.
yanhangyhy
Is DronesPunk a thing yet?
nehal3m
Don't those Shaheds run on nVidia Jetson? Jensen cashing in again. Funny that most of the hardware in those drones is designed in the US. Stop hitting yourself.
xvxvx
Jokes on them: the US has an infinite supply of $25M thanks to its servant population.
conartist6
I just want to confirm that people don't think hitting civilian drinking water as retaliation for a military helicopter is normal or ok
wolvoleo
An Apache only costs ,$25M? I thought it was a lot more.
panny
>maybe by chance. Big sky theory says otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_sky_theory
juliusceasar
2nd Epstein War, why? BECAUSE Israel controls the US presidents.
fuckinpuppers
Just you wait! The Trump-class battleships are going to roll in to conflicts and ………….. totally get messed up by cheap drone swarms Maybe don’t have the buffoon who thinks he knows everything drive those kind of decisions