✧✦Catherine✦✧remember when other countries have been reverse-engineering american drones?
well, apparently in 2026 americans are reverse-engineering and reproducing Iranian drones
anyway if you come into possession of american shahed bits please send some to me. i'm an equal opportunity reverse engineer
Christian Huitema@whitequark And the Shahed drone is itself largely based on reverse engineering a US Sentinel drone...
Andre Weissflog@whitequark @huitema akschually: it's based on a German design from the 80's, which then got copied by Israel, which then got copied by Iran, which then got copied by Russia, which then got copied by the US:
The Sentinel-reverse-engineered Shahed 171 is an entirely different thing than the low-cost Shahed 136 (e.g. Shahed is just the company name):
@floooh @whitequark Armies have copied the weapons of other armies for a very long time. For example, the Romans copied Celtic helmets, and also Celtic swrods... Some things never change.