Two things are certain about the Saudi "drone attack"

[jpak]

1. What ever they were, they were not detected by Saudi Arabia's (US-made) air defense system.

2. They were long-range precision guided weapons with great accuracy - and I assume they struck their targets in a very short time fame.

Those two things alone should be troubling, if indeed they were Iranian weapons, if and when Trump attacks Iran.....

[5X]

1. drones would fly under radar and not be detected.

and drones are a dime a dozen these days.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Not these drones

These drones had a range of several hundred miles and could drop high explosive ordinance on their targets with accuracy.

This operation probably cost several millions of dollars to execute.

Also, the Russians probably had a hand in it.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. exactly! Upon first reading of the drone news, I thought Trump CIA...

After only slight research, I found the reply by 5x to be true.

[lapfog_1]

2. I wouldn't give a warm bucket of camel spit

to be on a US warship in the Persian gulf right now.

Sitting ducks if a war breaks out... At least I would want an Aegis cruiser nearby with their "wall of steel" defense weapon.

[Zoonart]

4. I'll go you one better...

the Saudi (US-made) air defenses apparently did not pick up this drone, but neiteher did our aircraft carriers just off the coast.
The us position is that we do not know who fired the drones...why not? If our best equipment did not pick this up... then what is going on?

[ScratchCat]

7. Remember too

Iran took down one of our drones in 2011 and we still aren't sure how they did it. Eyewitnesses claimed they had some sort of "tractor beam" weapon and it was just "pulled in". And they claim they reverse-engineered it two years later.

So, they mysteriously take a drone in 2011, and now they allegedly fire some sort of long-range ordinance or "drone" that didn't show up on anyone's radar. Maybe we have been warned, "You sure you know what we are capable of"?

Unless this is some kind of hoax, this is very bad news that they can potentially launch or fire something that nobody can detect.

[jpak]

9. Wow - that's even more spooky - AWACS and Hawkeyes didn't pick them up?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. 3 things: The attacks will raise the price of gas...

I topped off my fuel tank, after hearing about the drone attacks, which will raise the price of almost everything. I'm going shopping today to fill my freezer.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Something thing smells to high hell

about this whole thingee. Story posted earlier today about these Drones and missiles coming out of Iraq. Remember,when we bailed out of Iraq,millions of pounds of Military hardware was left behind by Military Contractor's.

And we know that the Iranian Engineers successfully hacked one of the Air Forces most advanced Drones a couple years ago and landed it at one of their Air Bases.

Our Media seems to thing the rest of the world are a bunch of Dumb Idiots not capable of reverse engineering things. Well,out side of a very few Countries,most have a average intelligence much higher than we do here in the great USA. What are ranked,like 27 th or something in that order.