Gotta watch out for those buzz droids!
This happened the week before Easter, if you remember.
Here's the report from CNN:
The account, which has not been previously reported, was shared by the F-15 pilot with intelligence officials during a debriefing after the incident. It immediately set off a firestorm of debate within the US intelligence community that has yet to be resolved.
If the airman really saw what he described — a formation moving in unison — it would be an alarming advance in Iranian drone capabilities.
'Multiple drones interconnected and moving as one with smaller drones below the bigger drones like legs,' one of the sources familiar with the pilot's witness account told CNN. 'Real alien sh**.'
Another source told CNN the pilot described witnessing a 'minefield of drones' in the air.
The clankers get more deadly by the day!
Many people were confused.
But other people chose to believe.
Still, CNN is sticking to its reporting:
While the exact cause of the F-15 downing is still being investigated, initial reports indicated that it was possible the drone formation had in some way enabled Iran to shoot down the American jet, according to two of the sources.
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US intelligence officials disagreed on how to interpret what the F-15 pilot described, and whether the pilot could recount the incident clearly.
For one thing, he was concussed in the crash. It was his second time being shot out of the sky during the Iran war: he had also been among the pilots downed in a friendly fire incident by Kuwaiti forces early in the conflict, according to two of the sources.
Had he witnessed a mature capability that US intelligence wasn't aware of? A beta test? A mirage in the desert?
I have no idea if Iran has coordinated drone tech or if this guy was seeing stars because he got shot down TWICE.
What I do know is 1) coordinated drone "shows" are super popular and easy for average Joes to do, and 2) drones are dominating the battlefield in wartime theaters like Ukraine.
Besides, the U.S. military has secret tech that allowed them to detect the heartbeat of one of the downed F-15 crew from miles away...
It's not that hard to believe that Iran was using a few hundred cheap Chinese drones to attack U.S. jets!
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