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🇮🇷 | The IRGC says it downed the Hermes-900 drone intact and fully armed using a ‘modern air defense system’ and is now under the control of aerospace experts and engineers for further examination.
Is this a big deal if it’s a drone that’s been in use since 2009
I don’t know, but I do know some military aircraft have expected service lives measured in decades, and that it’s common to keep them around decades longer than expected.
I just can’t imagine it having super up to date technological secrets but i guess even old vehicles get retrofitted with new shit
Good point. I’m sure the F-15s the U.S. is flying today have been upgraded quite a bit from the 70s.
I’m thinking if someone had been able to take down F-15s in, say, 1995, the U.S. probably wouldn’t still be using them, or at least not using them in the same way.
Iran’s airforce is one of its weakest points, so perhaps for that reason this could be somewhat helpful to them.
I mean I guess any information is useful information