Re:Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes
by hos234 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @05:56AM
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This is just US strikes - https://www.longwarjournal.org/us-airstrikes-in-the-long-war
The rest of the world I guess will catch up sooner or later.
Re:Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes
by jayalpha on Saturday September 14, 2019 @06:47AM
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"Plus, worryingly, this does seem a fairly automatable attack."
Yes. Cheap. Easily available. Can be launched from a Camel. Don't have to attack major facilities. It is enough to attack pipelines in the desert. How much does a drone cost?
Please consider: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-War-Terrorism-Globalization...
Re:Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes
by benj111 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @01:59PM
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"Can be launched from a Camel"
That's a feature I wasn't expecting to hear about today.
Re:Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes
by jayalpha on Sunday September 15, 2019 @08:25AM
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Well, it was sloppy writing. But I assume the drones can be transported with Camels.
Re:Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes
by benj111 on Sunday September 15, 2019 @08:59AM
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Don't spoil it for me, I had visions of a landing platform on their humps (would split in two, and fold down each side for ease of transport), and a little spinning radar dish. Obviously you'd still have the tasselled rug underneath, can I coin the name Bedouin Punk?
Re:Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes
by _xerxes_ on Saturday September 14, 2019 @09:59AM
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No need to wipe anything if you build it yourself. Plenty of online guides show you how with cheap Chinese parts. This is for a racing drone, but you get the idea:
Re:Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes
by walrus01 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @06:06AM
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There are a number of military analysts, some amateur, with websites documenting every photo and video they've been able to obtain of Iranian domestic produced drones.
Re:Saudi Arabia oil facilities ablaze after drone strikes
by malux85 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @05:43AM
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I love the idea of an open source (or just freely available) observatory that lists drone strikes and centralizes this info!
Plus, worryingly, this does seem a fairly automatable attack. The limiting factor for the attackers must be the supply of drones plus any concerns about wiping their geo fencing / remote self destructs built in. As someone who would get his drones from the local curry's I presume the attackers have some other supply channel ?