Fiber-Optic FPV Drone Attacks US Victory Base in Iraq

15 March 2026

FPV drone over Victory base. Photo credits: Serhiy Sternenko

An Iranian-backed group carried out a strike with a fiber-optic FPV drone on the U.S. Victory base in Iraq.

The corresponding video was published by Serhiy Sternenko.

The drone was reportedly supplied by the Islamic Resistance of Iraq group. Although it did not cause significant damage, only hitting a hangar, the attack itself represents a new precedent.

The FPV drone flew over the base in the Baghdad area without opposition and maneuvered while searching for a target.

Failing to find a suitable target, the drone, either accidentally or intentionally, struck the door of a concrete hangar, causing no significant damage.

This attack is the first known use of such weapons by pro-Iranian groups against American troops in the region.

As hostilities involving Iran continue and tensions rise, similar attacks could be repeated. At the same time, U.S. forces are not yet fully prepared to counter this type of threat.

U.S. forces have previously lost expensive equipment in Iranian drone and missile attacks.

It was recently reported that an Iranian missile strike on an air base in Saudi Arabia damaged five U.S. Air Force tanker aircraft.

According to media reports, the aircraft were damaged but not destroyed and are currently undergoing repairs. No personnel were injured.
At the time of the attack, the aircraft were at Prince Sultan Air Base. In addition to U.S. expeditionary forces, units of the Royal Saudi Air Force, the 4th, 6th and 14th Air Wings, are stationed there.

Tankers play a key role in U.S.-Israeli air operations.

4 comments

  1. “The FPV drone flew over the base in the Baghdad area without opposition and maneuvered while searching for a target.”
    This drone would have been a sitting duck for any Ukrainian unit equipped with the capabilities we need. Taco claimed that we don’t need Ukraine’s help. Another blatant lie from the person who is known worldwide as a blatant liar, among other negative things.

  2. Looks like TACO will have lift more sanctions on mafia land. Only two countries in the world operate these, only one country knows how to destroy them, and it ain’t the USA.

    • We all see the treason in Taco’s behavior, and so do millions of other people across the globe, because it severely stinks of glaring treason. Yet, our Congress is merely a symbol of a fully functional democratic state, having been reduced to be the crook’s minions, serfs, sanchos, and servants. Never mind our corrupt Supreme Court that uses our Constitution as toilet paper.
      A real president would do the right thing and make the mafia state pay a severe price for aiding the enemy, and for being responsible for damages and casualties.

  3. So who do we know that has developed fiberoptic drones and IS a friend of Iran?
    Well TACO man it ain’t Zelensky and Ukraine.
    One great day Trump will figure out Putin has been playing him false from the beginning and laughing at him the whole time.
    He might want to think about who told him he could trust Putin and what their agenda was?
    But I doubt his pedophilic mind can even allow himself to think he was wrong about anything.

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