{"id":21903,"date":"2026-03-25T16:34:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21903"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:34:37","slug":"fpv-drones-enter-the-iran-war-are-we-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21903","title":{"rendered":"FPV Drones Enter the Iran War &#8211; Are We Ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US bases in Iraq are getting hit by FPV drones. At least a radar and helicopter&nbsp;have been destroyed. The US does not seem prepared for this advancement in warfare. If the US sends ground troops to Iran, a lot of them will be killed by FPV drones. These are short range, cheap drones, that can be used as suicide drones or to drop explosives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ukraine-Russia war has shown that this is a new factor in warfare, and the US doesn&#8217;t seem to have adapted fast enough.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America&#8217;s rolling thunder of destroying things from the air is not convincing the Iranian regime to budge or the Iranian people to rise up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FPV Drones Enter the Iran War - Are We Ready?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7rSv1Ig-RSc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US bases in Iraq are getting hit by FPV drones. At least a radar and helicopter have been destroyed. The US does not seem prepared for this advancement in warfare. If the US sends ground troops to Iran, a lot of them will be killed by FPV drones. These are short range, cheap drones, that can be used as suicide drones or to drop explosives. <\/p>\n<p>The Ukraine-Russia war has shown that this is a new factor in warfare, and the US doesn&#8217;t seem to have adapted fast enough. <\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s rolling thunder of destroying things from the air is not convincing the Iranian regime to budge or the Iranian people to rise up. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7rSv1Ig-RSc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,221,553,272,355,314,156,391,259,1005,170,619,158],"class_list":["post-21903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-drones","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-technology","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21904,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21903\/revisions\/21904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}