Das Pentagon hat bestätigt, dass US-Streitkräfte iranische Ziele mit Waffen angegriffen haben, bei denen es sich um Kopien der iranischen Selbstmorddrohnen Shahed 136 handelt
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/us_iran_clone_drones/
Das Pentagon hat bestätigt, dass US-Streitkräfte iranische Ziele mit Waffen angegriffen haben, bei denen es sich um Kopien der iranischen Selbstmorddrohnen Shahed 136 handelt
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/us_iran_clone_drones/
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Like WTF else is new, Temu was the lowest bidder.
It’s a pretty basic design that’s proven to work. Why not.
But also, who knows how long the US has had them.
The term “reverse engineered” is a bit weird here. It’s accurate, but not typical.
Normally, I think of reverse-engineering as taking an advanced thing that you don’t know how to make and then figuring out the new and advanced technology.
In this case, it sounds like they looked at it, said “huh, that’s really cheap and simple”. But they still decided the cost-to-benefit ratio was better than their own units.
I’ve seen that a lot in industry. It’s not even odd, it’s just not what we typically think of as reverse engineering. It’s more “observing”
Weeks ago, one of the trump boys invested in a low cost per kill drone company. If you paid attention, they were telegraphing the strikes. They wanted to make money from them.
The article states $35,000 like sure buddy the real cost is at least $100,000+.
I think we’re going to continue to see a blending of tech terms to refer to next gen warfare. Where does guided missile end and kamikaze drone begin? Guided missiles are intended to track, fly, follow and hit a target, and usually have some combination of propellant and flight surfaces like small wings. Kamikaze drones do all of that also, but in theory could just fly around like other drones and not hit a target? If their intent is to usually hit a target, how different are they really from a guided missile? Perhaps the idea is that they deploy without an assigned target, to seek and find a target through gathered data, then hit it?
Just an interesting trend for how we describe these ammunitions.
„Hoist by their own petard“
…the sincerest form of flattery
Insufficient emulation unless they were building them with stolen ultralight aircraft motors.
Nothing new. The US built 1,700 copies of the German V-1 to use in the invasion of Japan.
Isn’t the Shahed 136 already a reverse engineered U.S. drone?
Delicious irony
They should have returned the drone when Obama asked
Wait wait…the US has Shahed copies?
So then how the hell do we know any video of a Shahed plowing into something isn’t the US?
„insert Rick and Morty clone copying meme*…..
This is what war is like. People copy each others. And the reason why technological advancement will explode in war. Like Russia and Ukraine had the world most advanced drone and anti-drones techs right now.
Basic, cheap and it works well. I would opt for these and swam the target lol.