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trhwaytoday at 6:01 AM5 repliesview on HN

Well, time to dust off anti-drone defense systems. Today on NPR they talked that Iran plans to launch drones from ships into California.

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/authorities-warn-of-p...

Fox News drone expert:

https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/us-news/iran-could-use-drones-...


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4ggr0today at 8:16 AM

> Fox News [...] expert [...] nypost.com

surely a New York Post article quoting a Fox News "expert" will be factual, unbiased and not at all an attempt to pour more oil into the fire and manufacture consent to bomb a couple more girl's schools.

botanicaltoday at 6:38 AM

Sounds like justification for a false flag operation by the US government. How would they transport these massive things and launch them on a different continent? That, or the US is trying to justify that this illegal war is on their doorstep and need to expand their terror.

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SyneRydertoday at 7:11 AM

We never did find out what those drones in New Jersey in 2024 were, did we? One Republican congressman seemed convinced at the time that he'd been informed:

BBC: Mystery New Jersey drones not from Iranian 'mothership' - Pentagon

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrwz91wqd9o

It's certainly a theory / narrative that keeps appearing in the media.

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notenlishtoday at 6:04 AM

I feel like that's not realistic, why would they launch drones to California rather than some place like DC or NY. It's a long distance.

I don't even think they'd launch drones to DC either, they seem to be all in on attacking oil infrastructure as well as us bases & defense systems in the Middle East, rather than America.

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riffrafftoday at 6:13 AM

> Iran plans to launch drones from ships into California

That does not make any sense to me. Does Iran have a bunch of ships in the Pacific? Why? How would they even got close enough to the US coast without being noticed at this point?

I'm not saying it's not true, I just don't understand.

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