Having faced continuous drone attacks by Iran and its proxies over the last two years, the US military is responding by standing up its first one-way attack drone squadron in the Middle East — and ...

The US has a new one-way attack drone task force in the Middle East. The Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack Drones resemble Iranian-designed Shahed loitering munitions. LUCAS designs were unveiled at the ...

CAMP SCHWAB, Okinawa — The Marine Corps certified Okinawa’s first 12 attack drone operators during a two-week competition this month, creating the means to make precision strikes while keeping Marines ...

The new drone is based on reverse-engineering Iran's Shahed drone. The U.S. military has deployed its first squadron of one-way attack drones to the Middle East, employing a U.S.-built drone that was ...

A Navy warship’s successful launch of a one-way attack drone this week was a watershed in the Defense Department push to get hundreds of thousands of the transformational aircraft into the field, ...

A US Navy warship operating in the Middle East launched a one-way attack drone at sea this week, marking a first for the American military as it pushes to deploy this new technology. The ...

A Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) was launched from the flight deck of littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara while operating in the Persian Gulf on Dec. 16, 2025. In a press release, ...

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