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Sadly this is a past tense thing now since Rukban in Jan 2024 where 3 U.S. soldiers unfortunately were killed by an Islamist (Iranian backed) group with a drone

• aspenmayer 1y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_22_drone_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_22_drone_attack > On 28 January 2024, an attack drone, launched by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq—an Iranian-backed Shia militia group—struck Tower 22, a U.S. military outpost in Rukban, northeast Jordan. The explosion killed three U.S. soldiers and injured 47 others. > The incident marked the first time U.S. troops were killed by enemy fire since the start of the Gaza war. President Joe Biden condemned the attack as "despicable" and pledged retaliation at a suitable time. The U.S. began retaliatory strikes on 2 February, hitting sites in Iraq and Syria. Iran denied any involvement in the attack. What might have made this attack different, and hopefully some indications that lessons were learned: > The failure of air defenses to intercept the drone was a key focus of the subsequent U.S. Central Command investigation of the attack. A U.S. preliminary report found that the hostile drone attacked around the same time an American surveillance drone was returning to the base, which likely led to confusion over whether it was an enemy drone and delayed a response. And, the reason this belongs on HN imo: > An Analog Devices employee was arrested in December 2024, and later charged with evading U.S. export controls and facilitating indirect sales of some of the technology used in the drone, via the Iranian military.
• WillAdams 1y ago
  Thank you for that correction --- I've edited my comment to reflec that.