Bill Sweetman
Bill Sweetman
@ValkStrategy
Jul 20 6 months ago 2 tweets Read on X
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This thread jokes that if Pentagon's Reapers aren’t working well, it’s because Iran upgraded their old Soviet AAA guns in the 2010s. The writer also shares a story about a German crew shooting down planes with anti-aircraft guns and says a Reaper drone could handle similar threats easily.

For anyone at the Pentagon or CENTCOM muttering "there seems to be something wrong with our bloody Reapers today", I'd point out that Iran in the 2010s modernized some Soviet 100 mm AAA guns with auto feed and hooked them up to radar/1 …

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I was drinking on a plane once with an elderly German who with his crew had shot down both a Mosquito and an Me 262 ("It was a flak zone, he was being an idiot") with the Flak 41 72-cal 88. The Sa'eer would do a Reaper up a treat, mate.

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