FPV Drones Destroy US Black Hawk Helicopter and Sentinel Radar at Victory Base Complex, Baghdad

On 25 March, fiber-optic-guided FPV drones from Kataib Hezbollah/Islamic Resistance in Iraq destroyed a US UH-60M Black Hawk and an AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel radar at Victory Base Complex, Baghdad. This is the first confirmed destruction of a US military aircraft by enemy drone action in the current conflict. Fiber-optic guidance defeats all current US jamming countermeasures. The cost per drone is a few hundred dollars. All US installations in Iraq and Syria face elevated risk from this technology.