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The United States unleashed an array of weaponry against Iranian targets on Saturday, including Tomahawk cruise missiles, stealth fighters, and for the first time in combat, low-
The LUCAS drone, fired at Tehran on Saturday as part of U.S. strikes on Iran, is itself based on Iran’s Shahed-136 drone.
Defense expert Cameron Chell analyzes Saturday's sweeping military campaign against Iran that combined precision strikes with kamikaze drones in a coordinated U.S.-Israel operation.
Iran's attacks on Gulf Arab states suggest the Islamic republic is targeting not just the US military but also civilian infrastructure.
U.S. Central Command said Sunday that in the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, American forces have used more than 20 types of aircraft, ships, missiles and other weapons systems to hit more than 1,000 targets.
The U.S. has released a joint statement with governments of Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE -- all countries impacted by retaliation from Iran over the weekend -- to say they "strongly condemn" the regime's "indiscriminate and reckless missile and drone attacks" on countries across the region.
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US confirms first combat use of LUCAS one-way attack drone in Iran strikes
The Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System, or LUCAS drone, is a one-way attack drone reverse-engineered after the Iranian Shahed-136.
The drones were launched by CENTCOM’s Task Force Scorpion Strike, which was specifically formed to develop and deploy one-way attack drones at scale.
The U.S. military used cheap attack drones in its opening operations for the first time in combat against Iran, Central Command confirmed on Saturday afternoon. The joint U.S.-Israeli military strikes,
The U.S. and Israel have launched major attacks on Iran, whose state media say Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. Iran counterattacked, and exchanges of fire continued Sunday.
President Trump had threatened for weeks to strike Iran unless its leadership agreed to U.S. demands, particularly over Iran’s nuclear program. Last year, the U.S. bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities.