Somehow I imagined they meant kamikaze drones, however they're talking about 30 million dollar reaper drones which are mostly used for surveillance being shot down around Iran.

The blazing executive incompetence is as obvious as a traffic flare.

Another empire bankrupting itself fighting pointless wars.

The US military industrial complex has been a scheme to sell expensive weapon systems with exorbitant maintenance contracts to the government for decades now.

This works fine from 1980-2020ish when you're fighting limited intensity conflicts against countries you have uncontested air superiority over.

But with cheap drone technology and other innovations of the last decade it's never been easier to be a near-peer adversary. The incumbent powers of the world have vast expensive arsenals of weapons designed to fight the last war.

That being said, I know that the US Military internally has been very well informed of the realities of what a war against Iran would look like for decades. It's been well understood for a long time that decapitation strikes against Iran won't work because their military and paramilitary organizations are deliberately composed of highly autonomous units. You could have asked the janitor at the US Army War College in January 2025 how a war against Iran would go, and he would have told you it would be insanely costly, that Iran holds a indisputable advantage in a defensive conflict and that they have numerous strategic cards to play like blockading Hormuz, attacking the Gulf states, and drawing support from the US's larger geopolitical allies.

Ironically, the US had all of this intelligence within their institutions but ignored it. They ignored it precisely because the US is vulnerable to decapitation strikes.

It's amazing how incompetent the U.S. has become. Sure, let's telegraph to the entire world that the U.S. is entirely incapable of sustaining warfare, all as part of a meaningless war.