US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says

mitchbob

https://archive.ph/2026.03.05-175641/https://www.bbc.com/new...

verdverm

One only needs to look to Ukraine for how this might play out in the long-run, remixed a bit. 1. Neither side has been unable to stop the other from mass producing drones. Too easy to build in small facilities, whack-a-mole scenario. 2. Interceptors will become depleted, more "squeakers" will get through as time goes on. Some graphs: https://bsky.app/search?q=ukraine+drone+graph

cdrnsf

Ukraine should refuse to help barring a commitment to continued support and support of their preferred peace plan.

bdangubic

done… in exchange for 100 nukes

yread

He also said that gulf states expended 800 patriot missiles (about 1 year of production) which is more than Ukraine got over the whole war

akie

Did they say "thank you" and "please"?

moffkalast

This is like that episode of SG-1 where Baal comes to ask O'Neil how to fight the Replicators. "I'm sorry, we must've had a bad connection there, for a second it almost sounded like you were asking me FOR HELP"

chaostheory

This means that there’s a ground invasion… Iran is just as mountainous as Afghanistan. This will be a disaster.

Animats

Well, Ukraine is, by necessity, the leader in defending against drone attacks. Ukraine wants more Patriot air defense missiles in exchange. A reasonable deal.

coffinbirth

Reminder that the US is primarily responsible for the precision strike killing of at least 165 school children[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike

themgt

The real story is that the Patriot and other interceptor stockpiles Zelensky's asking for are now critically low, and tens of thousands of soft targets are hard to defend against cheap drones. This war is on course to set off a truly unprecedented global energy crisis within days, and the USA/allies don't currently appear to have any plan to fix it.

ck2

Good thing this isn't actually a war according to everyone in the administration and they just annouced it's likely going through September (which means until end of year) and they are now dropping 2000 pound bombs on targets next to civilians https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/04/evacuation-middle-e... > "U.S. Central Command, meanwhile, is asking the Pentagon to send more military intelligence officers to its headquarters in Tampa, Florida, to support operations against Iran for at least 100 days but likely through September, according to a notification obtained by POLITICO" (billion dollars a day and that's before replacing all the weapons)

shmerl

Trump should stop bootlicking Putin then and give Ukraine serious long range ground to ground missiles. Time for Putin to pay higher price for being a fascist scum.

EnPissant

He also went on to say that Lionel Messi asked him for tips on corner kicks.

stevenwoo

For the anti-drone drones, the factory for the non electric components is row after row of 3D printers, the drones only need to work for one mission. I posted this earlier. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208567

juliusceasar

All this shit to distract from the Pedo files... USA has become Israel puppet state.

carabiner

We'll soon have drones fighting drones, with few or no lives at risk. Like countries burning piles of money until one runs out.

FrankWilhoit

Name your price, Volodymyr.

comonoid

Ukraine should request strong cards in exchange.

Flundstrom2

There's been so many things I didn't have on my 2026 bingo card I've lost count... Can't we get back to some form of normality soon? I'm happy to take another pandemic instead of the current state of the world.