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You've just described air power. Except now it's actually possible to destroy industrial facilities instead of maybe hitting a city.
What prevented that from being possible before?
The use of drones in this way by rebels makes me rethink the media image of a rebel. They are educated, lawyers, doctors, engineers.
Has there, will there ever be peace in the middle east? feels wrong to say middle east... arab world... don't want to box them in by religion either.
The Middle East is no more warlike than the west. Remember is only been a couple generations since World War 2, and sectarian violence has been around within the last two decades in the west.
Eventually cheap drones, anonymous assassination markets, etc. will make commercial flying a thing of the past.
Written summary of podcast - https://podcastnotes.org/2019/03/20/after-on-naval-01/
An unusual (and worrying) part about this incident is how drones are being used, not with an explicit military goal in mind, but rather for the purpose of economic strangulation. Like terrorist operatives, drones are relatively cheap and expendible. But unlike terrorism, which seeks to grind away at the enemy's resolve, this kind of attack attempts to deprive an enemy of the money needed to fund its operations. Like…
If you're into that sort of thing, you should go check them out as they're hiring a lot of folks
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I tried quickly to find a source that confirms this since you didn't provide one but I cant find anything. Where did you get "It's Russian / Iranian technology deployed by Russian / Iranian mercenaries" from?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/world/middleeast/saudi-ar... for the tech claim. The "mercenaries" claim is wrong (at least in Yemen) though.
"Iran has supplied drone technology to the Houthis fighting the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, a panel of experts reported in January 2018 to the United Nations Security Council.
United Nations investigators say the Houthis have since obtained a more advanced drone than those cited in that report, with a range of 930 miles, The Associated Press reported."
So it's not clear if the source of the recent, more advanced drones is the same as the previous ones that the UNSC reported.
Or am I missing something else from the article?
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Do they really not have this capability? You can buy a decent drone off the shelf for a thousand bucks, how hard is it to strap an IED on the back?
With a range over 1000km?