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America stole Iran’s Shahed drone—and is now copying it

The Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drone, now under development by the US Marine Corps, is a carbon copy of the Shahed drone.
The Mohajer-6, one of the models cited, is a combat drone capable of surveillance and precision strikes using guided ...
Known in Russian service as Geran-2, the Shahed-136 is usually launched from the ground or from vehicles, sometimes with assistance from a rocket to allow a near vertical launch. This allows a single ...
(CNN) — 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 — ...
The technology has already been linked to deadly attacks. Prosecutors said the Sepehr Navigation System, built by Abedini’s company, was found inside a Shahed drone recovered after militants struck an ...
Earlier this month, Iran's news agency provided visual evidence that its government had figured out to make a fancy new drone that could take off and land vertically. What they didn't tell us is that ...
Yemen’s Ansar Allah – commonly known as the Houthis – and Somalia’s two proscribed terrorist organisations, al-Shabaab and Islamic State in Somalia (IS ...
WASHINGTON — The US military’s regional command headquarters for the Middle East formed a new team tasked with getting small armed drones into the hands of American military personnel in the region.