Ironic, yah think? Speaking of drones- The US has reverse engineered the Iranian Shahed drone. Ms Cat had mentioned this. My suspicion is, this drone is being used by the US and Israel to attack nations like Cyprus. Those false flags mentioned in yesterday’s report
Interesting article from Washington Post- big admission
Swarms of low-cost drones used by the Russians in Ukraine have been breaching U.S. air defense systems and striking targets across the Middle East. The U.S. is asking Kyiv for help.
The Trump administration, which has expressed frequent exasperation with all that has been asked of it by Ukraine, had an urgent request of its own this week.
With swarms of Iranian drones breaching U.S. air defense systems and striking targets across the Middle East, Ukraine — which has spent years confronting nearly identical attacks — was asked to come to the aid of the United States and its partners.“We received a request from the United States for specific support in protection,” against Iran’s drone systems, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday on X. Ukrainian advisers and systems would shortly be on their way to the Persian Gulf region, Zelensky said, because “Ukraine helps partners who help ensure our security.”
More broadly, however, t
he U.S. request has focused attention on why the United States and its gulf allies have seemed poorly prepared for retaliatory drone strikes by an adversary that has spent much of the past four years stockpiling lethal “Shahed” drones by the thousands,“If you are planning a war against Iran — the original purveyor of Shahed drones — and you are surprised that Shaheds are numerous and difficult to intercept you haven’t been paying attention,” said Dara Massicot, a defense and security analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
There is a multiyear disconnect between the Ukrainian combat experience and institutionalizing its lessons in the U.S. military,” Massicot said. As a result, she said, the United States and its allies are
“reaching out to Ukraine in a time of crisis.”A U.S. official acknowledged a U.S. request but said it was unclear whether it was before or during the current operation
The success of these strikes has been a source of irritation to Trump administration officials.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashed out at coverage of Iran’s drone attacks this week during a news conference at the Pentagon. “We’ve taken control of Iran’s airspace and waterways without boots on the ground,” Hegseth said. “But when a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it’s front-page news.”
The gulf region is strewn with sophisticated air defense systems — including Patriot missile batteries — but has proved vulnerable to a relatively low-tech weapon: drones that are manufactured on a mass scale by Iran and Russia, evade radar by flying at slow speeds low to the ground and can be launched by the hundreds without need for conspicuous staging platforms.
Read the rest at the link provided