CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Sam Faddis) - How China helps Iran kill Americans
Originally posted by AND Magazine
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