Monday, September 16, 2019

Hooters and their drones


IRANIAN TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS TO YEMEN
UAE forces report that Houthi and Saleh-aligned forces employ the Qasef-1 to target Coalition MIM104 ‘Patriot’ surface-to-air missile systems. They do so by crashing the UAVs into the systems’ radar sets (specifically the circular main phased arrays)— directing the UAVs by programming their systems with open-source GPS coordinates of the Patriots’ positions.
While the Coalition deploys Patriot systems to counter missile threats, the destruction of the Patriots’ radar systems enables Houthi and Saleh-aligned forces to target Coalition assets with volleys of missile-fire unhindered. The use of these UAVs illustrates the Houthi and Saleh-aligned forces’ ability to employ low-cost technology against the Coalition’s sophisticated military assets. Their acquisition of Iraniandesigned Qasef-1 UAVs supports allegations that Iran continues to bolster the capacity of Houthi and Saleh-aligned forces through the transfer of new technology and advanced weaponry.
What is to be discovered? All the parts including motor are freely available on the hobby sites.  Hooters could have rented a boat, gone fishing off the shore of Bahrain and let loose a bunch of thee cheap drones.  Maybe an Iran Guard went along, to fish and give advice?

War has changed.  Dunno what the Pentagon is going to do, but we have a problem. We have another trillion due on human fighters which are now outdated and not useful in war. We can write off about 5T in defense spending from the past as worthless. The US military cannot even track these drones, they fly too low. And with suicide drones crashing into Patriot missile radars, the missile defense is too expensive and not working.

The Pentagon, right now, must be developing patrol drones, raiders that fly cover from the drones at low altitude.  There will be a mother ship with radar to watch for incoming, none of these manned.  The defense is mostly just now being developed considered that amount of wasted effort on those two fighter programs.  Trump got us in deep, the military is unprepared and this will cost taxpayers a shit load of do-re-me.

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