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While the News reports the use of FPV drones on the battlefields of Ukraine, US Army Rangers in Iraqi Kurdistan recently experienced the same type of attacks.
In the Fall of 2023, a brigade of the 10th Mountain Division became the first large unit of U.S. soldiers to face waves of long-distance one-way attack drones. The “Commandos” of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team were the primary defense force for coalition bases across Iraq and Syria, during a time when troops in the region faced 170 attacks from one-way attack drones, rockets, mortars, and ballistic missiles fired by Iranian-backed militias.
The unit’s top leaders had seen years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. But they were unprepared for the waves of drones and their tactics, developed and deployed by Iranian-backed militias in just the few years since major combat ended in those larger wars.
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Soldiers of the 10th Mountain 2nd Brigade Combat team faced an unprecedented campaign of drone attacks during a deployment to Iraq and Syria in the fall of 2023
In the Fall of 2023, a brigade of the 10th Mountain Division became the first large unit of U.S. soldiers to face waves of long-distance one-way attack drones. The “Commandos” of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team were the primary defense force for coalition bases across Iraq and Syria, during a time when troops in the region faced 170 attacks from one-way attack drones, rockets, mortars, and ballistic missiles fired by Iranian-backed militias.
The unit’s top leaders had seen years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. But they were unprepared for the waves of drones and their tactics, developed and deployed by Iranian-backed militias in just the few years since major combat ended in those larger wars.
An Army brigade's trial by fire against Iranian drones
Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division 2nd Brigade Combat Team took out more than 100 one-way attack drones in 2023.
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Soldiers of the 10th Mountain 2nd Brigade Combat team faced an unprecedented campaign of drone attacks during a deployment to Iraq and Syria in the fall of 2023
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