Cuba has also discussed plans to use drones to attack US targets such as the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, according to Axios news outlet.

Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones, according to classified intelligence cited by Axios news outlet.

The report published on Sunday alleges that Cuba had discussed plans to use military drones to attack the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay as well as military vessels and possibly Key West, Florida.

The Trump administration is concerned because of developments in drone warfare and the presence of Iranian military advisers in Havana, Axios cited a senior US official as saying.

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    9 hours ago

    Would they buy the actual drones, or the technical sheets on how to builld them? They don’t exactly fit under raincoat.

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    9 hours ago

    Typical authoritarian crap. The country is falling apart, people starving, no power, but somehow they can afford weapons.

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    19 hours ago

    Wow so Florida getting drone-swarmed by shaheds from Cuba was absolutely not on my bingo card this year, but I can absolutely see how we got here.

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      Cuba should just announce their intention to join the US as the 51st state and watch the administration do an overnight 180 just for shits n giggles lol.

      There’s no future where the US invades and doesn’t just keep it as an occupied territory.

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    I guess the US will learn about drone warfare first hand.

    Guess nobody told the goobers in charge that drones are quite small and don’t need much infrastructure to be launched (who am I joking, they were probably told but ignored it) and that they are very hard to stop if launched in large enough numbers. You can see that happening with Ukraine and Russia which have the most experience with drone warfare, and they still can’t reliably stop them.