June 19, 2025 | The Spectator

Have Iran’s kamikaze drones become redundant?

Seth J. Frantzman

Adjunct Fellow
June 19, 2025 | The Spectator

Have Iran’s kamikaze drones become redundant?

Seth J. Frantzman

Adjunct Fellow

Excerpt

    Over the last decade Iran has built up an impressive arsenal of kamikaze drones which can slam into targets more than 2,000 km away.

    Iran thought that in war it would be able to use these drones for massed attacks, and when Israel attacked Iran in the early hours of June 13, Tehran duly responded by launching its drone army. Yet so far its drones have been unable to terrorise Israel. By June 15, the Israel Defence Forces said they had intercepted more than 100.

    Seth Frantzman is the author of Drone Wars: Pioneers, Killing Machine, Artificial Intelligence and the Battle for the Future (Bombardier 2021) and an adjunct fellow at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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    Issues:

    Issues:

    Iran Iran Global Threat Network Israel Israel at War

    Topics:

    Topics:

    Iran Israel Tehran Israel Defense Forces Artificial intelligence