Missile fragments from Yemen. At first blush it looks like the tail end of our new friend the Franken-drone-missile, Mr. 358, who comes from Iran.
But looks like a GPS puck way back here on its butt. And I had been led to believe otherwise
Markings are a little opaque to me. At least on the Iranian ones, there’s sometimes a three digit prefix up front that’s usually a clue about where the part belongs to but obscured here
If you get enough beers in me IRL I will penalize you with my unified theory of this whole program but waiting until the wreckage matches what I think it is
Missile found near Tuz Khurmatu Air Base in Iraq is a pristine Iranian 358, the hybrid surface-to-air munition/drone first ID'ed by Centcom from a seizure in Yemen.
In Yemen we've seen this launched at U.S. drones. Per NYT, those infrared lenses on the side are designed as to defeat infrared countermeasures on helicopters. So yeah, sure looks like someone tried to take down a helicopter or drone or (insert here) last night.
Our good friend Mohajer-4 A041-65 does not appear to have seen much action outside of the occasional expo appearance over the last eight years. 2013 vs 2021. Few scratches but still good enough for dog and pony shows.
Same cannot be said for A041-65's buddy, A041-66. A041-66 had a very Forrest Gump like existence.
See, A041-66 was seen at that same 2013 delivery ceremony for the Yasir drone. Only unlike his number neighbor, 66 was in a bucket of parts and not fully assembled like 65.
Watching the 60 Minutes segment on the Oath Keepers and it occurs to me that, while we have breakdowns of Jan 6 rioters veteran status and patchy numbers on service background, we don’t know a lot about MOS. Specifically infantry vs not infantry.
Lots of references to why the Oath Keepers and other militia recruit veterans for tactical experience but it’d be nice to know if that’s actually born out by the data instead of just assumed.
“Are these people falling back on and passing along firsthand combat experience or are they trying to get it” seems like an important question from a recruitment & radicalization POV.
Kidding aside, this illustrates the asymmetry of sanctions power between the US/EU and Russia. US/EU zillionaires and officials don’t care about being unable to visit Russia or park their money there because, well, they don’t anyway.
On the other hand, whole lotta rich guys in Russia that would like to visit their pricey homes in London, the French Riviera, etc. and send their kids to schools there.
Since targeted harassment of reporters, particularly women reporters, is a topic today I'll offer my two cents since.
I spend a lot of time thinking about privacy and its online attack surface because of my background in open source investigations. I make lots of slides and memos about how to use the latest tools to pull more information off the Internet and prevent creeps from pulling it on you
The thing that bothers me the most about providing advice to reporters on how to button up their privacy & security is the inherent tradeoff that harassment forces. There's lots of things, small and large, you can do to mitigate & blunt it.
Hey, remember that guy Rob Minuta we wrote about who did security for Roger Stone on 1/6? The one we found doing security for Mike Flynn and Alex Jones? He's just been arrested by the FBI on riot-related charges according to local news. thedailybeast.com/this-far-right…