Iran specifically has built up its local infrastructure to make the drones as locally as possible. The Iridium network stuff for remote control of the drones, is so small that it shouldn’t be that hard to either smuggle in more or have stockpiled a fuck-ton of em already.
If “long-term” is years? Then sure, outside support is necessary. But I don’t think the USA/Israel can keep this up the assault for years.
If “long-term” is months to a year, Iran is probably very okay. (Outside of some incredibly lucky conventional strike by USA/Israel or a Israel starts using nukes and trying to glass Iranian civilian population centers.)
How long is “long-term”?
Iran specifically has built up its local infrastructure to make the drones as locally as possible. The Iridium network stuff for remote control of the drones, is so small that it shouldn’t be that hard to either smuggle in more or have stockpiled a fuck-ton of em already.
If “long-term” is years? Then sure, outside support is necessary. But I don’t think the USA/Israel can keep this up the assault for years.
If “long-term” is months to a year, Iran is probably very okay. (Outside of some incredibly lucky conventional strike by USA/Israel or a Israel starts using nukes and trying to glass Iranian civilian population centers.)