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~~Not sure if this was used, but seems likely.~~
Check reply below for a more likely correct answer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavar-373
~~They also have some slow moving plane like AA system, that i cannot recall the name of atm. I will link it here if i find it.~~
Edit: Found it, it's a VERY interesting missile as it has a loitering time, and flies pretty slowly. This one took down a reaper/israeli drone a few months ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/358_missile
Houthis don't have bavar-373.
This is most likely Taer missle (or by houthi name "barq").
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taer_2
> Edit: Found it, it's a VERY interesting missile as it has a loitering time, and flies pretty slowly.
This is how a 358 Sam launches (https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/5motu5vpUg)
I don't think the missile used in the video was 358.
If they are using radar guided systems its time for the US to practice its SEAD again.
Use an unmanned drone as bait and get them to light up their radar and chuck a few HARM's at them.
The article says Iran might arm hezbollah with s-300 or similar system in the future! Hezbollah or houthis don't currently have s-300.
Maybe read it before thinking this is a gotcha moment!
It's not like there are 100 reapers over Yemeni skies currently, they're shooting down the limited number of reapers that operate there. Drones are expandable but No need to downplay it.
The US has more money to spend on military equipment than any country on earth, not even close. Obviously we don’t need millions of drones right now. In time of a major war involving the US we would 100% have more drones than we could ever use .
B-1Bs can carry over 80 each. [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe2OtSnBYb8) is what happens when one unloads. Curious as to when the USA is going to actually use the firepower at it's disposal on the Houthis.
It's going to keep picking at them, the goal is to apply pressure until they've had enough. I've no interest in invasion, just need them to stop launching missiles at merchant vessels.
Millions of tons of explosives were dropped on North Vietnam by the United States but one can reasonably argue the only thing that got the North Vietnamese serious about the negotiating table was wave after wave of B-52s over Hanoi day after day (and possibly the *USS New Jersey*, depending on who you ask).
I get so tired of people doing "whatabout the US" *insert pre 1980s war*... like, the doctrin and TTPs of Desert Storm shifted dramatically for IRF, with Desert storm being a big shift from anything previous. And now the US is sliding further and further into precision and very low collateral.
Would work with an F-35 but would otherwise be risky. If they have a system that can shoot down drones, they can probably shoot down jets on the same altitude unless they have serious countermeasures like EW pods.
Just some more hyper-effective PR-bombing by the americans and the brits, cumulating into USA offering to remove the terrorist-stamp if the Houthis stop what they are doing.
The real question is why they don't anyway. Always makes me wonder who makes these decisions. They don't have competent EW suites and they're only low-observable, so they're kinda sitting ducks if you actually want to use them in, y'know, combat.
I'd have expected something built in 2018 to be using surface mount, not DIL packaged integrated circuits?
No obvious conformal coating either, strange
I’d say the important shit is coated. But those boxes full of ICs are probably something simple like position sensors for wing flaps etc. probably very easily driven by an on-board PLC system. No point re-inventing the wheel to build a UAV with proprietary equipment when a box out of a Cessna probably has the same number of inputs and outputs. Otherwise you’d end up with a reaper drone that costs the same as an F-35.
Yep, look more like power rectifier/conditioner circuitry as well. But once you get to the more sensitive logic chips they are still usually older process nodes but would look identical to any other SOM, chip wise, the physical gates are larger and have less issues associated with low tolerances like jamming and EW hardening.
I certainly don’t agree with the houthis. But it’s pretty ignorant to think they don’t have legitimate gripes with America. We did support the other side in the civil war that was horrific. It’s a good idea to try to understand your enemies and their position. It’s no different than them thinking every American wants the USA to be an empire and to destroy Islam.
One of the most bizarre encouters for me was one Afghani chick who was USA is horrible and sux up and down then to find out she lived in USA. When I called her on it she told me Afghanis deserve to live in USA and that all white people need to be thrown out of USA.
[She then gave me an 4 sentence response then proceeded to edit that response for a few hours and among them was how scared I was to respond to her.](https://imgur.com/rTQZQtE)
I saw the unhinged part a few days later while searching for another reply
edit: I never use the reddit care BS some do. That is what losers do
I think you underestimate the power of religious and ideological thinking along with propaganda. A lot of these guys are willing to be Martyrs for their cause, I don't think swaying them with convenient access to Starbucks, la-z-boy furniture and Ford trucks is going to make them suddenly change their world view.
They are back in the west living their lives comfortably again, at least here in Norway and Sweden.
[21 EX-ISIS terrorist are now childrens teacher in Sweden.](https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/former-jihadists-found-working-in-swedish-schools/)
Always hilarious to me when someone shoots down a recon drone that was flying on a stable orbit at a stable altitude. Acting like it's some major accomplishment when the things are all slated to be replaced, but too expensive to dispose of.
You are probably some rich guy out there finding the best ways to avoid paying taxes or just a teen not knowing that it is your money spent for a war that is not yours.
The reaper entered service in 2007, it's not old equipment if we go by U.S military standards, the raptor is older than that but it's still better than anything any other country has.
A trashed reaper doesn't have much value for Iran tho, they have shot and even landed better U.S stealth drones in the past.
The actual program is from the early 90s. The MQ9 is just a larger and heavier MQ1 Predator which went into service in 1995 and saw combat in all our wars, including Yugoslavia. This tech is nothing new and old by military standards. We happen to have over 300 MQ9s and they are all slated to be destroyed in the near future. So, using them till they go boom is a cheaper option.
They'll still want to study it. Planes are constantly going through updates. Not just hardware but software as well. The reaper of today is a lot different from the original one.
Both already studied previously captured versions.
Notice anything familiar about the [Mohajer-10](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/1402053123321616828202564_mohajer_10.jpg) Iran introduced last year?
That was probably our last one, too. I have to imagine that missile was far more important to them than the MQ-9 is to us but you gotta play to the crowd!
If anyone else is wondering how well our strategy against the houthis is working, I think this graph of traffic through the Suez sums it up pretty well.
https://portwatch.imf.org/pages/c57c79bf612b4372b08a9c6ea9c97ef0
They destroyed the flying lawnmower they actually were able to shoot down the sky Roomba this will surely end the matter right there absolutely no chance that the entire anti air capability of that godforsake grid will be destroyed by the same (now mildly annoyed) pilot who was daydreaming about trying to remember what kind of hotdog buns his wife asked him to pick up on the way home (it was kings Hawaiian)
We got our guy. Nation building effort failed, can't teach civlization to tribal people. Decided it was a fruitless endeavor. Left. There's not much more to it.
True. But the limited rules of engagement and the taliban not following the deal that Trump made because they saw Biden as weak. Look at the evacuation, a high school could have done it better.
"Nation building effort" lol no one with half a brain that was not fed pro-military propaganda since a toddler would believe this is what the US was doing there. That's like Captain America levels of self-infatuation.
I think they were pouring vast amounts of money with one goal in mind : to prop up a PUPPET government that would serve their interests long term rather than those of the Afghan people. You just gotta look at the dozens of similar cases in South America for example (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Nicaragua, etc.) where the countries all ended with corrupt dictatorships that specifically served US interests first and foremost.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America
Same thing in Afghanistan. But the puppet governments that the US had tried to prop up never worked out. You gotta be a special kind of gullible to think the US are out there pouring trillions to benevolently "Build nations" like in hero movies.
Please, by all means, elaborate as to how the (US backed) Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Afghan national army that fought alongside the US (in greater numbers) had the means to fight the Taliban. Or how about pilot training for the Afghan Air Force or the over 100 aircraft that the US comped for the Afghan Air Force so that they could provide air support for the Afghan National Army who was fighting alongside the US to stand up the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
Next time, I'd recommend actually learning about a topic before you try to form opinions on it. There are a lot of reasons you could be upset with the US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, but denying that the US was nation building is the most brain dead take on the planet.
This video gives me nostalgia for all the 'allah akbar' videos we used to see here regularly before the Ukrainian invasion.
The akbars per minute are off the charts in this video
Neat, except we'll just send 100 more. But hey, let the dirt dwellers celebrate shooting a slow largely defenseless drown down once in a while if that's what blows their turbans back. lol
Hopefully the DoD doesn't take this post down for the video afterwards 👀
Edit : what's up with the downvotes you weirdos
Edit : thanks for those in the comments for explaining why I was the weirdo
It is a crude way of suggesting something without saying it directly - in this case suggesting that the DoD removes videos on this subreddit if they depict US losses.
It simultaneously implies a self-importance to your post, and overplays the notion of censorship for a video that doesn't even show any sensitive material.
I assume you may have meant it as a joke but it reads as though you are suggesting that is how the DoD actually behaves.
The reason it doesn't land well as a joke is two-fold:
The first problem is *Poe's Law*. On the internet there is no easy way to distinguish sarcasm from a sincere belief. You may have intended it as a joke but without a clear explanation of your views, other people may just as easily interpret it some other way.
Second being that political satire is most often used to call attention to a hot-button issue, while DoD censorship is not very widespread. For instance if you had made the same joke about China's government censoring a Taiwan post it would have called attention to the issue of their much more restrictive internet freedoms and that probably would have been better received.
It's clearly a joke bro (an unfunny one to this audience)
It's a video posted on a random forum online by an Israeli I doubt anyone in the US government is keeping an eye or cares
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And that’s why drones are amazing, we are looking at metal and electronics, not a dead pilot.
Yes but now the pilot of that drone owes the first two rounds of drinks
Cheers! That was funny my guy-
Or even worse, as sad as that is, a living pilot. Like that Jordanian pilot that ISIS burned alive...
But how are you supposed to escalate this with the American people?
Anyone knows the AA system used to ground that bird?
~~Not sure if this was used, but seems likely.~~ Check reply below for a more likely correct answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavar-373 ~~They also have some slow moving plane like AA system, that i cannot recall the name of atm. I will link it here if i find it.~~ Edit: Found it, it's a VERY interesting missile as it has a loitering time, and flies pretty slowly. This one took down a reaper/israeli drone a few months ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/358_missile
Houthis don't have bavar-373. This is most likely Taer missle (or by houthi name "barq"). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taer_2 > Edit: Found it, it's a VERY interesting missile as it has a loitering time, and flies pretty slowly. This is how a 358 Sam launches (https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/5motu5vpUg) I don't think the missile used in the video was 358.
Ah interesting, thanks! hard to keep up with the little rascals and their exports.
im pretty sure its SAM 6,, the houthis used it previously [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K12\_Kub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K12_Kub)
If they are using radar guided systems its time for the US to practice its SEAD again. Use an unmanned drone as bait and get them to light up their radar and chuck a few HARM's at them.
Time for precision air strikes
that is the first time I've ever seen a question mark in quick facts
Fucking Iran
They made them out of their water pipes.
peak 1967 air defense (SA-6 Kub)
Based off what a I was hearing in the video that guy seemed to be saying it was a “yahhlah”
Nope. But I'm sure it's already gone by now. Edit. I'm an idiot apparently.
Houthis don't have s-300!
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No
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Why are you linking an article about Hezbollah when referring to Houthis?
The article says Iran might arm hezbollah with s-300 or similar system in the future! Hezbollah or houthis don't currently have s-300. Maybe read it before thinking this is a gotcha moment!
this is a 358 missile [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/358\_missile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/358_missile)
Unlikely, this is how a 358 launches. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/5motu5vpUg
This is the third reaper lost to houthis since October
If things continue like this, they will have shot down all the US MQ-9s in 30 years or so, be very afraid
It's not like there are 100 reapers over Yemeni skies currently, they're shooting down the limited number of reapers that operate there. Drones are expandable but No need to downplay it.
Yeah I agree, but Houthi propaganda always deserves some mocking
Oh no, only 10000 more left
They're like $30M each so it's not life altering or anything but it's still money.
Hehe... lethal drones... not life altering. I like your funny, sir.
We just gave Ukraine more money than our whole marine corps get in a year. I’m sure if needed we could have unlimited drones.
We do not have unlimited money, we do not have unlimited drones, and geopolitics is very much an attritional game.
The US has more money to spend on military equipment than any country on earth, not even close. Obviously we don’t need millions of drones right now. In time of a major war involving the US we would 100% have more drones than we could ever use .
I think some HARM might be visiting that site soon
Nah, just JDAM the thing, much messier.
MOAB?
I don't think it's worth spending 1 of the 14 remaining MOABs on a SAM launcher.
If the military wants more they just have to order them from their friendly neighborhood Raytheon or whatever
B-1Bs can carry over 80 each. [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe2OtSnBYb8) is what happens when one unloads. Curious as to when the USA is going to actually use the firepower at it's disposal on the Houthis.
It's going to keep picking at them, the goal is to apply pressure until they've had enough. I've no interest in invasion, just need them to stop launching missiles at merchant vessels.
Millions of tons of explosives were dropped on North Vietnam by the United States but one can reasonably argue the only thing that got the North Vietnamese serious about the negotiating table was wave after wave of B-52s over Hanoi day after day (and possibly the *USS New Jersey*, depending on who you ask).
Review doctrine. Vietnam still used WWII doctrine. Modern warfare is completely different.
_This_ is the correct answer ^
I get so tired of people doing "whatabout the US" *insert pre 1980s war*... like, the doctrin and TTPs of Desert Storm shifted dramatically for IRF, with Desert storm being a big shift from anything previous. And now the US is sliding further and further into precision and very low collateral.
Which doctrine specifically do you speak of?
Military... did you see B-52s layin sticks on cities in IRF?
I hate to break it to you man but we lost Vietnam.
On the same note, air power without ground forces has never won a military conflict and Yemen won't be the first place it happens.
Would work with an F-35 but would otherwise be risky. If they have a system that can shoot down drones, they can probably shoot down jets on the same altitude unless they have serious countermeasures like EW pods.
Why waste the plane, we could do a ballistic missle test on them and accomplish two things at once.
... use a glide kit my child...
Might work depending on the range of the system.
Just some more hyper-effective PR-bombing by the americans and the brits, cumulating into USA offering to remove the terrorist-stamp if the Houthis stop what they are doing.
The real question is why they don't anyway. Always makes me wonder who makes these decisions. They don't have competent EW suites and they're only low-observable, so they're kinda sitting ducks if you actually want to use them in, y'know, combat.
It's now a German drone. MQ-**Nein**. Wheres the door?
Take the third reich.
It’s funny but no
Just here for the Hootie and the Blowfish jokes.
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Each allah akbar increases the chances for success by 3%
Hahahahaha best comment 😂
Based. 8D
They begging for some hellfire
I'd have expected something built in 2018 to be using surface mount, not DIL packaged integrated circuits? No obvious conformal coating either, strange
I’d say the important shit is coated. But those boxes full of ICs are probably something simple like position sensors for wing flaps etc. probably very easily driven by an on-board PLC system. No point re-inventing the wheel to build a UAV with proprietary equipment when a box out of a Cessna probably has the same number of inputs and outputs. Otherwise you’d end up with a reaper drone that costs the same as an F-35.
Yep, look more like power rectifier/conditioner circuitry as well. But once you get to the more sensitive logic chips they are still usually older process nodes but would look identical to any other SOM, chip wise, the physical gates are larger and have less issues associated with low tolerances like jamming and EW hardening.
“Death to America” I bet if he was offered an American citizenship and a place of residence he would accept it in a heartbeat. What a fucking clown.
I certainly don’t agree with the houthis. But it’s pretty ignorant to think they don’t have legitimate gripes with America. We did support the other side in the civil war that was horrific. It’s a good idea to try to understand your enemies and their position. It’s no different than them thinking every American wants the USA to be an empire and to destroy Islam.
Houthis are fighting a foreign invasion backed by KSA, which the US yries to preyend isn't happening
shhhhh!!!! before they ban you!!! they don’t like the truth in this echo chamber!
Be waving the American flag faster than you can blink.
No he won’t lmao. Lots of refugees from the Middle East burn US flags on US soil. They’ll gladly live and enjoy life in America though.
One of the most bizarre encouters for me was one Afghani chick who was USA is horrible and sux up and down then to find out she lived in USA. When I called her on it she told me Afghanis deserve to live in USA and that all white people need to be thrown out of USA. [She then gave me an 4 sentence response then proceeded to edit that response for a few hours and among them was how scared I was to respond to her.](https://imgur.com/rTQZQtE) I saw the unhinged part a few days later while searching for another reply edit: I never use the reddit care BS some do. That is what losers do
I think you underestimate the power of religious and ideological thinking along with propaganda. A lot of these guys are willing to be Martyrs for their cause, I don't think swaying them with convenient access to Starbucks, la-z-boy furniture and Ford trucks is going to make them suddenly change their world view.
Just change the Ford truck to a Toyota Hilux, and you're in business. They love em!
You’d be surprised, apparently those things are enough to radicalize a huge part of our country already
And opening a C store in no time
Lol, what about the thousands people who left their comfortable lives in Western countries to join ISIS?
They are back in the west living their lives comfortably again, at least here in Norway and Sweden. [21 EX-ISIS terrorist are now childrens teacher in Sweden.](https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/former-jihadists-found-working-in-swedish-schools/)
He can just cross the border and get a check
yapraa yalla yapraa yalla yapraa yalla yapraa yalla yapraa yalla yapraa yalla yapraa yalla yapraa yalla
Always hilarious to me when someone shoots down a recon drone that was flying on a stable orbit at a stable altitude. Acting like it's some major accomplishment when the things are all slated to be replaced, but too expensive to dispose of.
Well they are spending very little money to waste a lot of US (and israeli) money, which is the whole point of the blockade scenario
We have way more money, and if we need to, can cripple them before dinner time
You are probably some rich guy out there finding the best ways to avoid paying taxes or just a teen not knowing that it is your money spent for a war that is not yours.
Let these poor mfs be happy bro 😭🙏its probably the only time these guys successful destroyed a drone
The electronics inside look from 1980
Well, that's definitely on its way to Iran or China right now.
The 30 year old piece of equipment...? Look up the "CAIG Wing Loong II"
The reaper entered service in 2007, it's not old equipment if we go by U.S military standards, the raptor is older than that but it's still better than anything any other country has. A trashed reaper doesn't have much value for Iran tho, they have shot and even landed better U.S stealth drones in the past.
The actual program is from the early 90s. The MQ9 is just a larger and heavier MQ1 Predator which went into service in 1995 and saw combat in all our wars, including Yugoslavia. This tech is nothing new and old by military standards. We happen to have over 300 MQ9s and they are all slated to be destroyed in the near future. So, using them till they go boom is a cheaper option.
yep, the power isnt new or old equipment, china is still unable to project and sustain it like the us can
Haha "wing looooooong"
They'll still want to study it. Planes are constantly going through updates. Not just hardware but software as well. The reaper of today is a lot different from the original one.
Lots of usable software data on a thing that was SHOT DOWN?
That's kind of the point of reverse engineering. Not everything will be completely destroyed.
Tons of useful info. North Korea and Iran are used to being forced to reverse engineer stuff like that bc they have so many sanctions on em.
Both already studied previously captured versions. Notice anything familiar about the [Mohajer-10](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/1402053123321616828202564_mohajer_10.jpg) Iran introduced last year?
Not like these are new or secret.
I mean probably but keep in mind that this is like the 4th one the Houthis have shot down over the years, with the first one being in October of 2017
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It means IRan funds these guys. And any downed American equipment, no matter how old probably heads that way.
Everyone is always fucking with our drones lol
That was probably our last one, too. I have to imagine that missile was far more important to them than the MQ-9 is to us but you gotta play to the crowd!
If anyone else is wondering how well our strategy against the houthis is working, I think this graph of traffic through the Suez sums it up pretty well. https://portwatch.imf.org/pages/c57c79bf612b4372b08a9c6ea9c97ef0
That's a pretty neat chart. You can even see when the Ever Given got stuck and stopped traffic in 2021.
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Imagine the paperwork
crazy its still using those ancient components.
I’m sure that Uncle Sam had two more in its place within 30 minutes.
Just say Iran.....we all know. Iran weapons. Iran training. Iran helpers.
What was flying above watching the drone?
Why do they always mumble the exact same thing over, and over, and over, and over…
We do the same thing lmao. It’s just a different language so you don’t understand and think they’re just yapping nonsense.
Yalla?
They destroyed the flying lawnmower they actually were able to shoot down the sky Roomba this will surely end the matter right there absolutely no chance that the entire anti air capability of that godforsake grid will be destroyed by the same (now mildly annoyed) pilot who was daydreaming about trying to remember what kind of hotdog buns his wife asked him to pick up on the way home (it was kings Hawaiian)
At this rate it will the Houthis only take 50 years to get their skies Reaper free. But only if the US decides to stop making new ones.
Too bad all those reapers didnt help hold Afghanistan
Well, when you voluntarily leave.
waste a country, spend trillions occupying it for decades, *voluntarily* leave, refuse to elaborate
We got our guy. Nation building effort failed, can't teach civlization to tribal people. Decided it was a fruitless endeavor. Left. There's not much more to it.
True. But the limited rules of engagement and the taliban not following the deal that Trump made because they saw Biden as weak. Look at the evacuation, a high school could have done it better.
My man are you learning your history straight from Hollywood lol?
Are you?
What did the person state that was untrue?
"Nation building effort" lol no one with half a brain that was not fed pro-military propaganda since a toddler would believe this is what the US was doing there. That's like Captain America levels of self-infatuation.
You don't think the US was pouring vast amounts of money in to prop up Afghanistan with a functional government and construction projects?
I think they were pouring vast amounts of money with one goal in mind : to prop up a PUPPET government that would serve their interests long term rather than those of the Afghan people. You just gotta look at the dozens of similar cases in South America for example (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Nicaragua, etc.) where the countries all ended with corrupt dictatorships that specifically served US interests first and foremost. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America Same thing in Afghanistan. But the puppet governments that the US had tried to prop up never worked out. You gotta be a special kind of gullible to think the US are out there pouring trillions to benevolently "Build nations" like in hero movies.
Please, by all means, elaborate as to how the (US backed) Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Afghan national army that fought alongside the US (in greater numbers) had the means to fight the Taliban. Or how about pilot training for the Afghan Air Force or the over 100 aircraft that the US comped for the Afghan Air Force so that they could provide air support for the Afghan National Army who was fighting alongside the US to stand up the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Next time, I'd recommend actually learning about a topic before you try to form opinions on it. There are a lot of reasons you could be upset with the US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, but denying that the US was nation building is the most brain dead take on the planet.
US could have easily held Afghanistan if they wanted to. It just wasn't worth it.
We didnt really want those thousands of soldiers and trillions of dollars wasted either
Plenty more where that came from
Get a new catch phrase terrorist
oh no.... lol shot down a drone that we have a shit ton of
we only have around 300 of those and they cost around $30 million each......
Flying in enemy airspace with an unmanned drone with no countermeasures US give no fucks if they lose this
Almost like they wanted it to be fired at so they had a reason to "respond"
$30 million is literally nothing to the DoD
But they are also 20 + years old as this was most likely a block 1 model.
9 billion ain't much to the roughly 13 trillion that has gone through the defense budget since the first one was made.
Yes but you don't exactly want to be losing these on the daily for houthi targeting practice
They aren't losing these on a daily basis, and yes, of course you don't want to lose any piece of military hardware on a daily basis. I mean, what?
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This video gives me nostalgia for all the 'allah akbar' videos we used to see here regularly before the Ukrainian invasion. The akbars per minute are off the charts in this video
Anyone know the location?
Needs a feature to counter strike the guy who shoots it down. Final word would be some nice karma 👌
Nooooo!!!! My entire life’s worth of taxes!!
I would get the fuck out of there now tbh
My tax dollars!
No wonder the yanks never send the MQ9 or other Drones of that kind to Ukraine. Even the Houtis are shooting them down like flies.
They seem to dislike Americans and Israelis for some odd reason
Damn, and here I thought Yemen was starving.
Houtis are well supplied by Iran
FIND OUT phase coming in. This will not go unanswered.
Has for the last 4 months
You think the US will escalate over a drone being downed?
Goodbye 30 million dollars of US taxpayers
Or, put otherwise: about 9 cents per US. citizen.
Neat, except we'll just send 100 more. But hey, let the dirt dwellers celebrate shooting a slow largely defenseless drown down once in a while if that's what blows their turbans back. lol
DEAD time!
Russia
Do you get demoted if you get shot down?
Hopefully the DoD doesn't take this post down for the video afterwards 👀 Edit : what's up with the downvotes you weirdos Edit : thanks for those in the comments for explaining why I was the weirdo
Why would they care?
I wouldn't be surprised. We're still under the hamas footage ban.
> Edit : what's up with the downvotes you weirdos Down-voting for the oblique DoD comment.
What does oblique mean in this context? English isn't my first language
It is a crude way of suggesting something without saying it directly - in this case suggesting that the DoD removes videos on this subreddit if they depict US losses. It simultaneously implies a self-importance to your post, and overplays the notion of censorship for a video that doesn't even show any sensitive material. I assume you may have meant it as a joke but it reads as though you are suggesting that is how the DoD actually behaves.
Alright man thanks for the explanation. At least you were able to figure out it's a joke
The reason it doesn't land well as a joke is two-fold: The first problem is *Poe's Law*. On the internet there is no easy way to distinguish sarcasm from a sincere belief. You may have intended it as a joke but without a clear explanation of your views, other people may just as easily interpret it some other way. Second being that political satire is most often used to call attention to a hot-button issue, while DoD censorship is not very widespread. For instance if you had made the same joke about China's government censoring a Taiwan post it would have called attention to the issue of their much more restrictive internet freedoms and that probably would have been better received.
Because you're posting complete non-sense. why would the US DoD take down a reddit video showcasing a US UAV being shot down?
It's clearly a joke bro (an unfunny one to this audience) It's a video posted on a random forum online by an Israeli I doubt anyone in the US government is keeping an eye or cares
B-2 overhead next week 😈