On March 1, 2026, Iranian Shahed drones struck a U.S. command center at Port Shuaiba in Kuwait. Six U.S. Army reservists from Iowa were killed. Dozens more were injured, suffering traumatic brain injuries and shrapnel wounds. No unclassified forensic examination of the remnants of the drones in this attack has been completed to our knowledge. More generally, however, the construction of Iranian Shahed drones has been documented extensively, and it has been well established that while these weapons are ultimately fully assembled in Iran, many if not most of their key components come from China . The engine used in the Shahed drone is a copy of one originally designed in Germany. All of the engines are now made in China. Several different…Open
(This is the first of a two-part series addressing the state of the current conflict with Iran and the way forward.) When I was an Army ROTC cadet in 1976, one of my instructors was a Special Forces SFC named Mason. He had served multiple tours in Vietnam. On one occasion, he and his team had been dropped into North Vietnam to conduct sabotage. Most of the team was killed. Mason was shot through the leg. He dressed his own wound, evaded pursuit, and after days of hard marching made it out to an extraction point under his own power. Mason was about as hard as they come. When we would go on field training exercises carrying the PRC77 radio, we would periodically have to change the big, brick-like batteries. In training, we humped them…Open
PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: Far-left social media personality Hasan Piker, who has advocated for political violence and made veiled threats in the past, appears to be encouraging his millions of followers to build suicide drones.WHO WAS INVOLVED: Hasan Piker and his millions of social media followers.WHEN & WHERE: The comments were made during a livestream of ongoing Iranian attacks […] The post Pro-Terror Grifter Hasan Piker Tells Followers, ‘Just Make F**king Suicide Drones.’ appeared first on The National Pulse .
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Far-left social media personality Hasan Piker, who has advocated for political violence and made veiled threats in the past, appears to be encouraging his millions of followers to build suicide drones. WHO WAS INVOLVED: Hasan Piker and his millions of social media followers. WHEN & WHERE: The comments were made during a livestream of ongoing Iranian attacks against Israel, U.S. military bases, and Arab Gulf States. KEY QUOTE: “Just make f**king drones. You can purchase them from, you know, you can purchase them in the online marketplace. Like, China literally sells like explosive ordnance delivery mechanisms that you can put to a DJI drone that you can purchase, like, at virtually no significant cost in…Open