Drone attack on parked U.S. Army BlackHawk in Iraq

Teever

Imagine a small quadcopter with deployment and transportation device packaged discretely inside an Amazon box. The box is shipped internationally and sent to a package delivery company that gets a job to deliver the box to an abandoned lot near an airforce base in bumfuck nowhere America. Once the package is delivered the deployment device cuts the top of the box open and lets the drone out. The drone flies in the direction of the base and then kamikazes on the nearest helicopter or aircraft shaped object that it sees. What’s the counter to that? Or imagine a scenario where a country launches a weather balloon full of the same kinds of drones but equipped with solar panels. The weather balloon explodes like a piñata and deploys all these drones over a vast area. The drones are programmed to make their way to different military or infrastructure targets and stop and recharge high places out of site of people and maybe only travel at night. They slowly make their way over days or weeks until they find their target. They’re designed to self destruct if they sense that they’re being handled by a human being. What’s the counter to that?

carefree-bob

This is the type of stuff Ukraine has been doing against Russian assets. It's effectifve asymmetrical warfare when you lose air superiority. We may even need to revisit what air superiority means in the age of long range, relatively stealthy drones that are cheap to produce using widely available tech. I also would expect Russian and Chinese Satellite intel being fed to Iran to locate these types of targets, again exactly like how the NATO powers have been providing intel to Ukraine.

ge96

Was mentioned how it's a medevac heli (blurred it)

freediddy

The biggest security threat any country has is if an adversary sends 1-10 million drones at once, each with a small grenade on it, and overwhelms a city. They could literally target individual politicians or weak spots on infrastructure like buildings or bombs and almost nothing could stop it except possibly an EMP. I'm not sure what anyone can do about that but that to me is my biggest fear about the future of all this technology.

hrdwdmrbl

" Trump said that “we don’t need help,” adding that the “last person we need help from is Zelenskyy.” " https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/iran-negotiate...

hrdwdmrbl

How long until an F35 is destroyed by a drone?

ChrisMarshallNY

There was this The Register story, a couple of days ago[0]. It says we can't handle drone swarms. [0] https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/23/nato_air_defenses/

general1465

I can already see Iran making FPV compilation "Death faces of American soldiers" like Ukrainian do, where target is to show face of terrified soldier from the last frame of FPV camera, right before FPV exploded. This is would be a weapon of massive demoralization when relatives of soldiers will be sifting through Iranian Telegram channels just to find video with their relative right before being killed or maimed. This is a powerful propaganda tool for Iran waiting to be used to full extent.