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Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance

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Re: Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance

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Not by chance. Why is the US Army helicopter flying in another sovereign country? The USA is the Russia of the West nowadays.

I think they mean the Apache was there to shoot it down and managed to fly too close while blowing it up. On the plus side: blowing it up successfully. On the down side ... well that's why it's in the news.

This is why you don't used manned systems to hunt unmanned ones ...

Re: Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance

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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.

Re: Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance

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Not by chance. Why is the US Army helicopter flying in another sovereign country? The USA is the Russia of the West nowadays.

The helicopter in question was flying in Oman, in Omani territorial waters.

Why does Iran have the right to fire drones into other countries?

Re: Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance

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post #7

Not by chance. Why is the US Army helicopter flying in another sovereign country? The USA is the Russia of the West nowadays.

The helicopter in question was flying in Oman, in Omani territorial waters. Why does Iran have the right to fire drones into other countries?

The same Oman Trump was recently threatening to blow up? Heh.
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