Daily Memo: On US Drones and Strikes on Iran

Washington wants to tap into an increasingly critical component of modern warfare.

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Mass production. The Pentagon wants to mass-produce a low-cost one-way attack drone that the U.S. has been using in the Iran conflict, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System, or Lucas, is essentially the U.S. analogue to Iran’s Shahed system. It was first deployed to the Middle East in December and […]

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