Iran, Ukraine and drone
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The U.S. and several Gulf nations are talking with Ukraine about buying interceptor drones designed to destroy Iranian-made attack drones.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the United States and its allies in the Middle East are seeking Ukraine’s expertise in countering Iran’s Shahed drones.
Struck by the success of large-scale, low-cost drone attacks, the US made covert efforts to capture Iranian Shahed-136s for technical analysis.
The U.S. successfully debuted a low‑cost suicide drone in combat in Iran just eight months after its Pentagon unveiling, as the U.S.
An American anti-drone system proven to work against Russian drones in Ukraine will soon be sent to the Middle East to bolster U.S. defenses against Iranian drones, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Friday.
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US CENTCOM confirms first combat use of LUCAS drones
The drone was operated by TFSS, a squadron dedicated to one-way attack drones in the Middle East.
The US and Iran are trading blows in the Gulf with a simple drone that costs as little as $50,000 to make. But why is a slow, cheap and relatively primitive drone seeing use in 2026 alongside hypersonic missiles and stealth jets?
Russian war bloggers are watching the US' new LUCAS drones — and fretting about Starshield terminals
Prominent milbloggers raised concerns about what the US might have learned from Russia's war after the LUCAS was deployed in combat against Iran.