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Posted on 06/23/2026 3:31:50 PM PDT by Libloather
The unsettling swarm of drones that a downed US pilot in Iran said moved in a bizarre “jellyfish-like” formation indicates the Iranian regime has devoted significant resources to beefing up its drone program — so it can counter the conventional battlefield tech of its rivals.
“They are adapting faster than us,” Brett Velicovich, drone expert and founder of Powerus, told The Post.
“Iran has spent years developing capabilities designed to offset the overwhelmingly conventional advantages of the United States and its allies.”
The unnamed F-15 pilot, who was rescued April 3 after hiding deep in enemy territory in the Zagros Mountains for more than a day, described a “minefield of drones” hovering in the air — which he surmised could have helped Iran shoot his plane down.
Velicovich said it was possible the injured pilot — who was badly concussed — might not have been seeing straight when he observed the swarm, but said what he saw could have been a so-called “mothership” drone.
Motherships, Velicovich said, are large drone aircraft capable of relaying communications or orders to other drones connected to them. Motherships are “a relatively normal way of warfare” in battle zones like Ukraine, he added.
The mothership goes way up in the air to provide an overview, sometimes connected to a tether, “then if it sees something out of the ordinary, it’ll drop a smaller drone like a [First-Person View drone] to conduct strikes” or surveillance drones to get the lay of the land.
Smaller drones can also be strung together using technology like Starlink or a mesh network, which Velicovich said Iran has the capabilities to do, and are commonplace on the battlefield in other war zones currently raging around the world.
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Looks like Elon has some adjustments to make on StarLink.
Iran is incapable of that kind of technology... Just the description, if any where near accurate, would be impossible for them let alone any physical capabilities of reaching high speeds and attitudes (even under 5k feet) with multiple drone technologies.
“...badly concussed...”
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First time I recall hearing that term used.
They're buying it from the same people we are.
reason number 100000000000 why we should not have stopped!
we should finish them off!!! dont let them rearm!
Hmmmm . . . “jellyfish drones.” Coincidentally the latest spate of UFO sightings — they’re now called UAPs — has included many jellyfish-shaped objects.
Sounds Chinese.
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