US Helicopter SHOT DOWN! Spektre Works LUCAS, the American clone of the Iranian HESA Shahed 136 attack drone
8d 2h ago by mander.xyz/u/pammyfromthesticks in FuckTheUSA@lemmy.ca from youtu.be
the Arizona-based company Spektre Works, in collaboration with the U.S. Army, manufactured the Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS), a drone very similar to the Iranian one. Unlike the sophisticated and expensive attack weapons of the U.S. Armed Forces, this drone has a unit cost of around $35,000, a very low figure for an unmanned aircraft of this type.
..._. Connecting the dots.
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Spektre Works LUCAS, the American clone of the Iranian HESA Shahed 136 attack drone
I'm torn - on the one hand lmao, on the other hand the only source for it being shot down appears to be trump who's using this as justification for further strikes. And why would Iran be shooting at some random apache anyways, when there's so many other targets they've been occupying themselves picking off - or ones in much more relevant locations.
This is just fucking weird.