Posted on 03/04/2026 5:31:31 AM PST by V_TWIN
Iranian state media showed off a fleet of drones lined up inside an underground bunker as part of a chilling propaganda video.
Footage, released by the semi-official Fars News Agency, shows the unmanned fleet sitting on rocket launchers and on truck beds, while dramatic background music plays in the background.
Drones lined either side of an aisle leading down a brightly lit tunnel with a variety of Iranian flags.
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I’m betting AI
I agree this probably is a lie for propaganda, but its also true that drones are easy to produce for a cheap cost and Iran has underground facilities to produce them that have not been taken out. Destroying Iran’s drone producing capacity is going to be tough. This seems to me to be the biggest challenge of the war right now. Even if we completely destroy their nuclear, missile and naval capacity, Iran could get their drone producing capacity back up and running and start lobbing drones at Israel and Iran’s other neighbors in the short term. And Israel and the neighbors would have to shoot down $30,000 drones with $1 million missiles.
My entire X feed (and Facebook, for that matter) is full of AI slop from accounts based in Africa, Turkey, Pakistan, etc. and getting amplified by otherwise trustworthy accounts who hate Israel so much, they're retweeting this AI nonsense.
"Tel Aviv is in flames!" The United States and Israel and have already lost the war!"
X is currently unusable as a news source. Elon needs to crack down on this garbage. The integrity of his site is at stake.
Makes no structural sense to reinforce a tunnel “roof” with steel braces that stop a meter short of the tunnel floor. No bolts or structural details visible. The brackets seem to be cut into the stone walls, which would take 1000 times the effort of placing the reinforcement on the surface with bearing plates transferring lovds to the floor. Video game graphics.
And, if they aren’t AI? Then what?
I guess you didn’t read any of the comments
Taken out or already depleted. Same thing, they’re gone.
Yea. Rusdia showed off rows of tanks on mayday but cannot secure territory aling its border after 4 years.
When I hear the word drone I think target practice! Bring it.
Those drones can be shot down with a short 2 second 20mm auto cannon burst from a jet or attack helo ( for the really slow drones like the ones shown in picture)
Easily shot down.
How do you get the production workers to show up when they know that they will eventually be targeted?
Your boy putin isn’t going to get them ... go cry in your vodka about it.
Like the prior controlling interests cracked down on conservative posts?
background music plays in the background
There's a difference between censoring the truth and censoring fake AI garbage posted by some dude in Kenya of Tel Aviv burning and the USS Abraham Lincoln sinking.
In an incredibly successful first 4 days of war, our failure to anticipate and prepare for the drone threat has been the one glaring failure - particularly after several years of observing their use in Ukraine. Secretary Hegseth and General Caine essentially conceded that today. Bottom line is that we need to eliminate the threat and improve our drone defense capability quickly. Yes I know, Captain Obvious, but it seemed pretty obvious before the conflict started.
"During a closed-door briefing Tuesday with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine acknowledged that Iran’s Shahed-style attack drones represent a major challenge, posing a bigger problem than anticipated, adding that air defenses will not be able to intercept them all, two sources in the briefing told CNN."
A lot of those drones are prop driven jobs & not very fast. Attack helicopters could shoot them down fairly easily, I would think. I don’t know how stealthy they are though. They may be difficult to pick up on radar, especially if flying low.
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