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• Ryan Finnerty
Pentagon discloses LUCAS loitering munition: 434 nm range, $10k–$55k unit cost
The Pentagon disclosed specifications for LUCAS, a reverse-engineered Shahed-136 derivative loitering munition with a reported 434 nm range and unit costs between $10,000 and $55,000. The US military has begun operational deployments of the low-cost, long-range one-way attack drone in the Middle East theatre.
