Cuba’s communist leaders are facing some tough times. The Cuban people are getting good and tired of no electricity, no decent food, no garbage pickup, and the prospect of a jail term if they complain about any of that, and yet the people are taking to the streets anyway. This has to be making the remnants of the old Castro regime nervous.
Also making them nervous is President Trump’s removal by force of a key Cuban ally, Venezuelan strongman dictator Nicolás Maduro, and the subsequent shutting off of the Venezuelan oil that was helping keep Cuba’s energy economy afloat.
Could Cuba’s El Presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel and his communist cohorts be thinking that they’d rather go down fighting? There are now reports that Cuba has acquired as many as 300 military attack drones, and that should be causing some foreheads to sweat in Florida as well as in Washington.
A new report indicates that the Caribbean state of Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones after tensions between the country and the United States have continued to escalate over past months, according to Axios.
Axios, mind you, doesn’t name a source for the claim. But the report is spreading around the internet, with some details:
The full post:
According to Axios, citing classified intelligence products shared with the news outlet, Cuba has acquired 300 drones from Russia and Iran since 2023 and has concept operations (CONOP) on the books where they would be used to target U.S. installations and vessels at Key West and Guantanamo Bay.
Per the report “officials don’t believe Cuba is an imminent threat, or actively planning to attack American interests. But U.S intelligence indicates the island’s military officials have been discussing drone warfare plans in case hostilities erupt as relations with the U.S. continue to deteriorate.”