Post by @briankrebs__dup_6@infosec.exchange

2026-03-03 16:21 UTC

Saw a few videos this morning of Iranian drones targeting US military bases and blowing shit up. I was struck by how loud and slow these things are. It&#39;s as if the loudest leafblower on the planet had wings and a propeller. This AP News story has some good detail on Iran&#39;s response to its neighbors, which indicates the majority of the many, many missiles and drones Iran sent at or near the UAE were intercepted, but that some less defended places were still hit due to the volume of the missile/drone volley. &quot;Officials in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates said Sunday that air defenses had dealt with 165 ballistic missiles, two cruise missiles and more than 540 Iranian drones over two days. While officials said they intercepted all air attacks Saturday, debris from the knocked-down weapons sparked blazes at some of Dubai’s most iconic locations.&quot; &quot;Some Iranian drones flew as far as a U.K. military base in Cyprus. The runway at the Royal Air Force base in Akrotiri was struck by an Iranian drone Sunday, according to U.K. officials, and sirens blared there again Monday when two more drones heading toward the base were intercepted.&quot; &quot;State-of-the-art U.S. and Israeli air defense assets have proven efficient in intercepting most of Iran’s ballistic missiles launched at Israel. But the attacks using large numbers of cheap drones hit some softer targets lacking the same level of protection.&quot; https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-gulf-war-drone-49c8ea76358e579447ff839485f394ac

Replies (8)

@h2onolan@infosec.exchange 2026-03-03 16:28

@briankrebs ive heard a few refer to them as flying lawnmowers. Operators make them loud as an anxiety/fear amplifier.

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@gme@bofh.social 2026-03-03 16:33

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange But when each drone costs $35,000 to volley, and you spend $4,000,000 per drone to stop it, something is going to give first.

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@jojo@lgbtqia.space 2026-03-03 16:49

@briankrebs How much cost, effort, stress, time to make and launch one of those drones? How much cost, effort, stress, time to make the intercept equipment and operate it sufficiently?

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@acalarch@infosec.exchange 2026-03-03 17:31

@briankrebs I guess CRAM is too old school? I dont get it.

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@systemadminihater@cyberplace.social 2026-03-03 17:36

@briankrebs Those drones only cost like $30k and you can buy them on Temu (not really but basically) and they take out things that cost millions of dollars.

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@darwinwoodka@mastodon.social 2026-03-03 18:02

@briankrebs But Ukraine is now building "quiet" drones, so this drone technology is going to improve rapidly as the drone wars escalate...

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@AG100pct@infosec.exchange 2026-03-04 00:29

@briankrebs

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@ferricoxide@blahaj.zone 2026-03-03 17:04

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange The three F15Es that got killed were supposedly due to there being so much flight-activity in the intercept control-zone. Basically, so much that the IFF method the F15Es were using got lost in the signal-clutter. That the US is now deploying LUCAS is really going to accelerate the need for markedly more-capable signals-processing (to increase the saturation-threshold). If there wasn't so much destruction, casualties and loss of life, it'd be purely academically interesting.

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