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The powerful, low-cost attack drone the U.S. is using in its war with Iran doesn’t come from one of America’s venture-backed drone startups. Instead, the drone was designed by the U.S. military itself, using reverse-engineered Iranian technology.

on.wsj.comAmerica’s Best New Weapon in Iran Is a Drone Inspired by IranReverse-engineering existing technology yielded “the Toyota Corolla of drones”—cheap, easy to manufacture and devastatingly effective.

1/4/26, 6:19 pm11 reposts25 likes

cherrycapital.bsky.social

@cherrycapital.bsky.social

1 Apr

The fully family tree of the drone traces back to a German design from the early 1990s. That is, the Iranian design was derived, indirectly, from the German one.

Hugo Edwin

@hugoedwin.bsky.social

1 Apr

Ukrainian technology is much better.