Loading ...What strikes me regarding this whole affair is the level of incompetence by the Saudis in protecting their most important strategic asset. They can afford to have the best air defense system money can buy, and still they stand helpless confronting a relative simple weapon, as this is what those Irani made cruise missiles are.
Someone is going to have to take the blame for having exposed Saudi Arabia as a paper tiger. It’s entire claim to fame rests on assets that are now shown to be easily destroyed, by a dozen or so drones, no less. Sure, the damage can be repaired, but then a second set of drones could destroy it all over again, ad infinitum. MbS has cooked his goose, I think, with this ill-considered Yemen war. He has to take the blame, and that suggests some serious rearrangement in the House of Saud.
“Drones” is a vague term. We talking a quadcopter you buy on Amazon or an advanced military drone like the one Obama landed in Iran several years back? Either way, there must have been a comm link to either GPS or to an operators receiver.. How can a well funded country like SA not be able to fuck with that signal? You don’t need to take it over, just fill it with trash information and make it impossible for the operator to control. Israel has had a portable. drone jamming device for a few years-they have contact with S.A.—I’m surprised S.A. has no counter-drone/missle technology