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Source: https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/crs-product\/IN12692<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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[Kim Hyung-seok Column] The MQ-9 Reaper Crash Was Just the Opening Act: An Invisible Shot<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n
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\n In March I asked on these pages: How did the Reapers go down? At the time the clue was that 11 aircraft were lost in roughly ten days, and my assessment was that residual, mobile air-defense systems had exploited complacency born of an era of uncontested airspace. Two months later that assessment has moved from hypothesis to documentary record. A U.S. Congressional Research Service report to Congress says that during Operation Epic Fury against Iran, 42 U.S. military aircraft were destroyed or damaged, and unmanned systems accounted for more than half those losses \u2014 24 were MQ-9 Reapers. The pattern of loss is clearer now, but a more consequential truth lies elsewhere.\n<\/div>\n
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\n The same report notes Iranian ground fire damaged an F-35A on March 19. That was damage, not a shoot-down, and it should be distinguished from Tehran’s claim of an F-35 kill. Still, the implication is stark: the very logic that brought down Reapers reached fifth\u2011generation fighters. The missiles identified in March \u2014 the Missile\u2011358 and the AD\u201108 Majid \u2014 do not turn on radar. They track targets using passive electro\u2011optical and infrared sensors, so aircraft that rely on radar\u2011warning receivers often receive little to no advance notice. Stealth reduces radar cross\u2011section; against an opponent that does not use radar, that shield loses much of its value. Infrared turned out to be a design gap in stealth aircraft, and Iran appears to have exploited it. The F\u201135 returning to base fits a profile of near detonations that damaged flight surfaces and stealth coatings without destroying the jet.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Fifth\u2011generation fighters array multiple infrared sensors around the airframe to spot the heat of incoming missiles, alert the crew, and counter with high\u2011G maneuvering and flares. But that defensive chain depends on early detection. Weapons that aim optically while keeping radar silent break that assumption. One hit does not always equal a shoot\u2011down, but the fact a stealth jet was exposed to an unannounced shot marks a new reality. The Missile\u2011358 patrols a designated area in a figure\u2011eight and autonomously strikes when a target comes into range; the Majid lurks in industrial parks or under road overpasses and stays silent until the decisive moment. That design philosophy \u2014 going dark to avoid detection \u2014 is especially lethal against technically superior opponents.\n<\/div>\n
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Source: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dawndotcom\/posts\/irans-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-irgc-said-on-thursday-that-it-had-struck\/1360390932799208\/<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n Note the asymmetry in target selection. Iran focused not on frontline fighters but on the enablers that sustain air operations. CRS records show seven KC\u2011135 air\u2011refueling aircraft were destroyed or damaged, and five of them were struck while parked at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. An E\u20113 AWACS was also reportedly destroyed. Tankers, AWACS, radar nodes and communications form the nervous system of air operations: they launch fighters, feed them fuel and targeting data, and give them eyes and ears. When that nervous system is degraded, even the most capable strike platforms struggle to operate. The maxim that slow, large systems die first spread beyond the Reaper fleet to ISR, refueling and early\u2011warning assets. This campaign demonstrated that degrading support infrastructure is often more cost\u2011effective than trying to shoot down a lone fighter.\n<\/div>\n
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China did not observe quietly. A PLA commentator said the 358 could easily down slow Reapers, calling it a \\”hidden arrow\\” aimed at Western drones, and state media highlighted how cheap, radar\u2011silent interceptors can neutralize assets worth tens of millions of dollars. My March warning \u2014 that every potential adversary would study this battlefield \u2014 now appears to be migrating from analysis into doctrine.<\/p>\n

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Source: https:\/\/defencesecurityasia.com\/en\/iran-silent-hunter-358-missile-destroying-mq9-reapers-china-us-drone-dominance-risk\/<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n So what\u2019s the solution? The diagnosis I offered in March still holds. To survive high\u2011intensity conflict, unmanned systems must evolve toward two extremes. One path treats them as high\u2011value, survivable assets: winged, stealthy designs that increase physical survivability. The U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program \u2014 represented by Anduril’s YFQ\u201144A and General Atomics’ YFQ\u201142A \u2014 is a concrete example of that direction.\n<\/div>\n
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\n The other path is low\u2011cost, attritable systems: smaller airframes that reduce detection probability and accept attrition. Miniaturization trades endurance and range for affordability. Efforts to overcome that tradeoff include air\u2011launched effects (ALE) carried to the edge of adversary air defenses by large \\”mothership\\” aircraft, relay swarms that stitch together short loiters into persistent coverage, and wireless power transfer (WPT). If real\u2011time energy resupply matures in operational settings, small platforms could sustain much longer missions.\n<\/div>\n
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\n But Epic Fury left another lesson: war tests not only battlefield effects but industrial resilience \u2014 the ability to replace what you lose. The Reaper production line that supplied those 24 losses has closed, and the market now holds only about ten new airframes. Reports that the Air Force is considering re\u2011acquiring aircraft it once planned to retire underscore a paradox: even assets designed to be expendable become permanent losses if the production base cannot replenish them.\n<\/div>\n
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\n Source: https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/your-military\/2026\/05\/21\/air-force-dubs-mq-9-the-mvp-of-epic-fury-as-lawmakers-press-manned-unmanned-future\/<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n On the Korean Peninsula the questions are concrete. Can our systems detect and counter passive infrared threats that do not rely on radar? Are our air\u2011refueling and early\u2011warning assets dispersed and hardened so they are not sitting vulnerable on the ground? In a crisis, can our domestic industry rebuild lost unmanned capabilities? North Korea has shown it can mass\u2011produce drones from commercial components despite resource constraints, which suggests resilient, repeatable production is not an abstract problem for us.\n<\/div>\n
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\n We must design multi\u2011sensor fusion to close detection blind spots, disperse and harden critical assets, and build peacetime domestic production and replenishment chains for unmanned systems. Rather than relying on a single advanced shield, survival demands forces that are smaller, dispersed and continuously replenishable. That conclusion is unchanged from March; only the scope has broadened to include stealth fighters and the entire airborne nervous system. The MQ\u20119 Reaper’s losses were not the end but the opening act.\n<\/div>\n

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The author, Kim Hyung\u2011seok, is a professor in the Defense Power Studies Department at Hansung University’s Graduate School of Defense Science and a visiting research fellow at the Korea Institute for Military Affairs,<\/i>\n<\/div>\n
and the author of books including Spear and Shield of the Sky: The Frontlines of Drone Warfare; Three\u2011Second Choice: A Survival Manual for the Drone Battlefield; Killer Drones; and Four Years of the Russia\u2011Ukraine War: What Has It Left Behind?<\/i>\n<\/div>\n

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