Steve Feldstein and Dara Massicot
In its Iran attacks, the United States used low-cost one-way attack drones for the first time in combat, and Iran has been using its Shahed drones extensively with similar intent. Why is this noteworthy?
Steve Feldstein: There are two aspects here that I think are significant.
First, America’s adoption of one-way attack drones, derived from Iran’s Shahed-136 unit, shows that technological innovation doesn’t flow in a single direction from more advanced states to less advanced ones. Rather, it demonstrates that new innovations come from a variety of sources.
Iran’s designs have clearly showed their benefits, including in Ukraine, to the point where Russia has invested $2 billion in setting up a dedicated factory to produce these drone models (which it calls Geran-2 units). It should come as little surprise that the United States would emulate this design as well.
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