• @[email protected]
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    1106 months ago

    The helicopter was an old American Bell, stopped production decades ago and parts are hard enough to come by. Sanctions work, they just manifest in mysterious ways such as this and Iran’s terrible aviation service record in general.

    • oce 🐆
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      146 months ago

      Cue conspiracy on a CIA plan that took 50 years to yield results.

      • @[email protected]
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        86 months ago

        “So hear me out, we place a bomb in one of the Hueys and then stop supplying them with new ones, one day their leader will totally get on it and then we got em”

        “Yo bill maybe slow down on the company acid please.”

        • oce 🐆
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          86 months ago

          Too obvious. More like, “We’re going to use slightly less lubricated ball bearings, position the aircraft on the market just where they will buy it, the maintenance specificity will not be documented, and it should kill a couple of important people in 50 years!”. (Loosely inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet)

          • @[email protected]
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            36 months ago

            I’m not sure the CIA was doing stuff as advanced as Stuxnet in its LSD days when it was supplying Iran.

            Though now that you mention it, I’m surprised we’ve never heard of the CIA doing more things like obscure Stuxnet style sabotage on leaders’ aircraft and the like.