"Never use any more resources than are needed for the task." but damn if the low battery alarm doesn't trigger my anxiety. $DEITY bless the drone pilots, for they have balls of steel.
corq
Followup from Jake Broe tonight, whole show is great of course, but this timestamp explicitly rebuts this news: https://youtu.be/X8s1TJLhp1c?si=S-GjlnSA90PaBcit&t=224
This may happen, or this may not. I've been hearing this rumor for weeks if not longer via Telegram. The author perpetuating this story is pro-Ukraine, but zealously anti-Zelenskiy since his election.
This smacks of an externally influenced 'divide and conquer' strategy, by sowing confusion and internal dissent.
Addressing my own ignorance on these, I guess variants of these have been in use for some time.
Anyway, TIL and all that...
Sauce: Osinttechnical
"New announcement from the DOD this evening, in response to “recent escalations by Iran and its proxy forces across the Middle East Region”, the US will deploy the Eisenhower CSG to the CENTCOM AOR, along with an additional THAAD ABM battery and PATRIOT SAM battalions."
Also: please enjoy my absolute awful first attempt at animated gif memeing. "Yes it's bad, and indeed I feel bad, Rear Admiral Zoidberg..." (Warning: Possibly seizure-inducing)
Walter Matthau in aeronautic form