Author: Michael

Some call them “kamikaze” drones, evoking the image of Japanese suicide attacks on the U.S. Navy toward the end of World War II. The U.S. military seems to prefer the unintentionally hilarious term “one-way” drone.
No matter what you call it, America’s newest weapon, dubbed the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System, or LUCAS drone, is now being employed for the first time ever, according to The War Zone.

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In the past few years, many a defense analyst has spent countless sleepless, sweaty nights worrying about the future of drone warfare. The era of exquisite air defense is passing gently into that good night. Counter-drone tech is still struggling to keep up.
For decades, the Pentagon and its allies operated under the wonderful delusion that air superiority was a birthright, bought with billion-dollar toys and protected by $4 million interceptors.

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Four American service members were killed, and others were “seriously wounded” during U.S. military operations against Iran, U.S. Central Command officials said.
The deaths of three service members were initially announced over the weekend, but CENTCOM officials said early Monday that a fourth, who was “seriously wounded during Iran’s initial attacks, eventually succumbed to their injuries.

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