Cuba has reportedly acquired over 300 military drones for potential attacks on Guantanamo Bay and parts of Florida. Classified intelligence shared with Axios said that officials in the country discussed hitting the US base in Cuba and Florida’s Key West, just 90 miles north of Havana. A US official told the outlet that the intelligence highlights how much the Trump administration sees Cuba as a threat due to its drone development and the presence of Iranian military advisers in the nation.
‘When we think about those types of technologies being that close, and a range of bad actors from terror groups to drug cartels to Iranians to the Russians, it’s concerning. It’s a growing threat,’ the official said. Cuba has been buying up drones of ‘varying capabilities’ from both Russia and Iran for the last three years and kept them hidden, Axios reported. In the last month, Cuban officials have reached out to their Russian counterparts for more drones and military accounts, officials claimed. According to intelligence intercepted by the US, Cuban officials are ‘trying to learn about how Iran has resisted us’. Officials added that they don’t believe Cuba is an imminent threat or actively planning an attack on America, but rather they have been discussing drone warfare in case fighting breaks out as US relations continue to fall apart.
