US Central Command says it used “one-way attack aerial drones, and one-way attack sea drones for the first time” in strikes against Iran on Sunday.
The exact type of drones or in what numbers each were used was not specified in its press release.
US aerial attack drones saw their first use early in the war with Iran, when CENTCOM deployed the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) – essentially a knock off of the Iranian-designed Shahed 136 drones that Russia has used in large numbers in its war on Ukraine.
“These low-cost drones, modeled after Iran’s Shahed drones, are now delivering American-made retribution,” CENTCOM said in a social media post at the time.
As for sea drones, the US has been experimenting with a few types, according to analyst Carl Schuster, a former director of the US Pacific Command’s Joint Intelligence Center.
“The most suitable for one-way strikes is the Fleet-class unmanned surface vessel (USV),” Schuster told CNN.
These craft were designed for mine-countermeasures or anti-submarine missions, but with a speed of more than 40 mph they could be adapted for one-way, “suicide strikes,” he said.
“They are expensive (over $2 million per) but … would be hard to stop,” Schuster said, adding that the USV and the LUCAS aerial drones are designed to be deployed from US Navy littoral combat ships.
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