With the nearest US drone airbase over 550 km away, how did US intelligence know where and when to position two MQ-9 Reaper drones to kill Qasem Soleimani as he left the airport?
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that present and former American commanders and intelligence officials said the attack specifically relied on classified “informants, electronic intercepts, reconnaissance aircraft and other surveillance.”, the White House can order a drone strike on a target only ‘with near certainty’ of their presence.
Even if the drones took off from the closest airbase in Kuwait, that’s nearly 570 km of travel time to be made before his landing, and manageable for the MQ-9 Reaper drone, with a range of over 1800 km and a top speed of 480 km/h. Tensions between Israel and Iran were at their highest prior to Soleimani’s assassination, following an alleged failed Mossadthat would have seen the use of 500 kg of explosives to kill the IRGC commander in September 2019 as he visited a memorial.
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