A newly formed task force based in the Middle East is now equipped and ready to deploy one-way attack drones, U.S. Central Command has announced.

Task Force Scorpion Strike was formed four months after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth released a memo calling for the rapid integration of drone technology across all military services.

The unit is already equipped with a squadron of Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System drones, known as LUCAS drones. With a robust, simple design, LUCAS drones have a wingspan of about 8 feet and can be used flexibly as munitions.

Designed by U.S.-based SpektreWorks, they bear similarities to Iran’s Shahed-136 drones and can maneuver in swarms.

The LUCAS drones are a product of a damaged Shahed drone that was captured several years ago. A U.S. defense

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