It is one of several, including the sharing of targeting information on U.S. military facilities and personnel with Iran.
It also marks a shift from harassment attacks by Iran's proxies to precision reconnaissance and targeting (ISR + kinetic precision) inside one of the most heavily defended diplomatic zones in the world.
It is an escalation that the U.S. president has yet to seriously address.
The facts are no longer in dispute. The response still is.
Moscow transferred the technology, including software, fiber spools, and training, to Iran, which is now arming proxies to target U.S. and European facilities in the Gulf region.
The use of fiber-guided FPVs is significant. Unlike traditional drones, they are resistant to electronic warfare and jamming, making them far more effective against defended targets.
Again, without hyperbole, this is a serious and dangerous escalation by Russia.
4/5
That same night, Iranian militias launched drones and rockets into the Green Zone, striking the Al-Rashid Hotel, which houses the EU mission.
This follows a pattern of escalating attacks, including repeated drone strikes on U.S. facilities near Baghdad International Airport and coalition positions across Iraq.
This jam-resistant fiber FPV technology was developed at scale by Russia in Ukraine.
3/5
During broad daylight on March 16, Iranian-backed Saraya Awliya al-Dam (Guardians | Companies of the Blood, Awliya al-Dam Brigades) released a video taken by a fiber-controlled FPV drone conducting a reconnaissance flight over the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdadโs Green Zone.
The group is part of the โIslamic Resistance in Iraq,โ a network of Iranian-backed militias that has repeatedly claimed drone attacks against U.S. and coalition bases in Baghdad and Erbil in recent weeks.
2/5
โผ๏ธ๐ท๐บโ๐ฎ๐ท๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ฝ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ด๐ฒ๐ ๐จ.๐ฆ. ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐น๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐น๐ฒ ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ๐ ๐๐๐ฎ๐
๐๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐จ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ง. ๐๐๐๐จ ๐๐จ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐๐ฃ๐๐ก๐ฎ๐จ๐๐จ, ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฎ ๐๐ฉ.
Any doubt I previously held has been dismissed by these events so I am no longer hedging... This is my analyses of the situation and I stand by it.
1/5
๐ท๐บโฌ๐ฝ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ง-๐ต๐ฌ๐ "๐ก๐ผ ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐ผ๐ด๐๐ฒ" ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ธ๐ฎ
The 2nd Army of the World, then and now.
Everything is going to plan.
Results of yesterday's AFU strike on the oil storage depot in Labinsk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia.