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Posted on 03/12/2026 7:14:15 AM PDT by bitt
The United States just delivered one of the most significant demonstrations of adaptive military capability in modern history
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As coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran continue, one thing is clear: this is not the kind of war we have spent decades planning for. There are no massed formations or carrier battle groups trading salvos. This conflict is being fought with swarms of relatively inexpensive, one-way drones. Adaptation and rapid innovation now determine how conflicts are fought.
Iran has spent years perfecting saturation warfare. The concept is straightforward: flood the sky with enough drones and missiles to exhaust the enemy’s interceptors, force impossible triage decisions and eventually break through. Iran has targeted hotels, tourist centers and locations without hardened counter-drone systems. Iran’s kamikaze drones, called Shaheds, are low, slow and persistent. They aren’t technically sophisticated, but they are difficult to stop in large numbers. This isn’t a failure of U.S. technology. It’s a logistics and economics problem that we need to solve and adapt to. And we’re already doing that.
For the first time, the U.S. has deployed the LUCAS system — a one-way attack drone modeled directly on Iran’s own Shahed design — in combat. The system was developed by reverse-engineering downed Iranian drone systems in Ukraine and rebuilding them with American guidance systems, hardened navigation and real-time targeting integration into our intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) networks. Then we sent them back to Iran to destroy their infrastructure.
LUCAS was used in the opening strike, hitting Iranian drone manufacturing sites and other weapons infrastructure before advanced fighters followed. These drones aren’t just munitions; they’re nodes in a combat cloud, receiving real-time targeting updates and networked with intelligence assets in ways Iran's drones cannot match.
While Iran is building volume, the U.S. is building systems. This
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Bump. It’s going to take boots on the ground to go kill the leaders of the IRGC and finally allow for a different government to take over there and hopefully bring peace. What we have now and developing, is NOT peace.
The destruction of eleven MQ-9 Reaper drones worth more than US$330 million (RM1.25 billion) during Operation Epic Fury is exposing the vulnerability of America’s flagship surveillance-strike UAV against Iranian air-defence networks and reshaping the strategic debate over drone warfare in contested airspace.
Where are we with the lasers?
Article reads like human edited AI...
Now, for more speculation, the boots on the ground, should be the Persians. I would guess this operation wasn’t started unless planning was made for a Persian led swamping of the mullahs. Having tens of thousands of citizens massacred by the state might lead to that type of response.
No. It's going to take the Iranian people to do that job. We need to arm, supply, and help coordinate them.
” It’s going to take boots on the ground to go kill the leaders of the IRGC”
Or just one pissed off body guard.
Or one who wants bounty money.
When we wonder later what happened to MAGA, it’ll be easy to pin it on the events of the last two weeks.
” It’s going to take boots on the ground to go kill the leaders of the IRGC”
Or just one pissed off body guard.
Or one who wants bounty money.
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Iran has done a good job at distributing power among its various institutions, ensuring that blowing up one ayatolla will not crash the system. We’ve just seen it in action.
One bodyguard on our side won’t change the path we’re on.
Or a civilian uprising.
The think the miscalculation was in the Iranian people rising up to overthrow the government. From appearances, that simply is not happening.
“When we wonder later what happened to MAGA, it’ll be easy to pin it on the events of the last two weeks.”
When we don’t get bombed by Iran it’ll be easy to pin it on the events of the last two weeks.”
All it takes is one to start it going.
Ester proved that in Persia, a long time ago.
Bkmk
“This conflict is being fought with swarms of relatively inexpensive, one-way drones.”
Dude’s on crack.
Drones are less the 1% of the explosive power being delivered by both sides. They are in no way decisive.
However, we don’t read articles about the real innovation in warfare and that’s Stealth...and the F-35 in particular.
That tech IS decisive. It took out all the AD and allows heavy bombers to do their thing.
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