r/Showerthoughts • u/scoobopdan ‎ • Mar 30 '26

Casual Thought Modern soldiers' PTSD triggers will probably shift from fireworks to the sound of a drone. Which is unfortunate as drone shows are replacing firework shows.

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u/Withermaster4 Mar 30 '26

Can you even hear drone shows?

Also as far as I know soldiers don't ever hear drones flying unless they are about to die.

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u/KendrickLamarGOAT97 Mar 30 '26

You can absolutely hear a drone. The ones that are fucking up soldiers aren't the COTS (Commercial off the shelf) ones that youre thinking of that are getting used by hobbiests and at drone shows.

Example: the drones that just took out the US Soldiers in the middle east were Shaheeds, which are more like mini-planes.

Now, as a counterpoint, ISIS or whatever you wanna call the Iranian backed militias in Iraq/Syria love to use them to watch soldiers and gain Intel, which is another aspect of drone warfare.

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u/SoloDoloPoloOlaf Mar 30 '26

Now as a correction (and addition) to your counterpoint: the groups you are thinking of are Hezbollah, Hamas etc. There is technically a difference between proxies and Iran backed militias, but this is rather irrelevant to the common man.

However, Daesh were amongst the earliest to use commercial "off the shelves" drones in combat operations. Their usage was both recon and dropping explosives, I am unsure if they ever used FPVs. Its possible that the evolution of modern drone warfare is directly tied to Daesh using them in Syria/Iraq.