re: Why was the Jordan border drone attack successful?

I knew we still had Al Assad in Iraq. The other locations and Jordan I didn’t know. We’ve been in and out of Turkey for awhile and heard we’ve been in Syria which never made sense to me. New stuff along the straight and where the Iranians are I get that. Need to stop fighting proxies and actually punish those responsible.

The info is out there Open Source, you just need to do a little work to find it.

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The base, known as Tower 22, sits near the demilitarized zone on the border between Jordan and Syria along a sandy, bulldozed berm marking the DMZ’s southern edge. The Iraqi border is only six miles away. Tower 22 began as a Jordanian outpost watching the border, then saw an increased U.S. presence there after American forces entered Syria in late 2015. The small installation includes U.S. engineering, aviation, logistics and security troops with about 350 U.S. Army and Air Force personnel deployed there. The base’s location offers a site for American forces to infiltrate and quietly leave Syria. A small American garrison at al-Tanf in Syria is just 12 miles north of Tower 22. That base is along a Syrian highway leading into Iraq and ultimately Mosul, once a prominent base of the Islamic State group. It’s also a potential weapons shipment route over the road for Iran.

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As for how the drone got past base defenses? SecDef covered this in his press conference last week. They had one of their drones inbound for landing so anti drone defenses were down.

What he didn't mention is that an additional 33 personnel were injured. That the target was a barracks. That the barracks were targeted at night when they were occupied. The barracks location coupled with the knowledge of the incoming drones flight path and timing indicates a significant level of intel and operational knowledge. This wasn't a Houthi style shoot 500 times and you will eventually hit something.

I don't think ISIS has this level of operational sophistication. I would guess this was a direct strike by IRGC and not a proxy force. Not sure if the administration has come out and said that yet or not. They are still pissed about us droning their shite hear commander a couple of years ago.

“They” wanted it to be successful, so it was. It served its purpose.

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this is malfeasance of the highest order and should blow back on Sec Def and Biden.

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Wishful thinking.

It's totally (D)ifferent for them, you know.

But...

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shouldn't the transponder IDs of equipment left behind been reclassed as non-friendly?

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Yeah, 100%. And nothing as valuable and dangerous as a fricking MilSpec drone should've ever been left behind for the goat raping Tallys anyway. Should've wrapped that shite in det-cord and futilized it, if absolutely forced to abandon it.

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Need to stop fighting proxies and actually punish those responsible.

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Check Yemen, we've been there a long time.

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Like something out of Star Wars. It’s an older code sir but it checks out…

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If true, that's impeachment level stuff. Maybe someone with military experience can weigh in on how this stuff works. I'm sure the recon/spy drones can switch transponder off, but the implication here is that it was left on and the air defense network read it as a friendly aircraft because the codes hadn't been updated to account for abandoned weaponry in Afghanistan. That was ~2 years ago.

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One would assume the rf signal that IDs a drone to command and control is encrypted and that ID encryption is programmable and changed periodically for security reasons.