There's an Usha head style one-way attack drone just like the one made in Iran, but this one is proudly made right here in the USA and just saw action against Iran in Operation Epic Fury.

Hey everybody. I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott. This is Right Angle Brite you by the members of Bill Whittle.com and gentlemen in July of last year, Secretary of War, I love saying. Pete Hanksath headed up

this big pent of a gun event showing off, I think it was 15 or 16 American-made drone

prototypes, all one-way attack drones that we had zero of anywhere in our military inventory.

And anyway, these prototypes had gone from drawing board to development in an average of just 18 months.

And by comparison, the Navy's FAAX program to replace the F18 Super Hornet with a stealth fighter,

that started in 2012 and they haven't even chosen a design sorry

i get a little angry with that one anyway um so one of the prototypes that was shown off by

heggseth at this event look more than a little familiar to anyone who follows the the ruso

ukraine war because it is a virtual copy of iran infamous Shahed drone, which is also made in Russia

now under license, manufactured in the thousands. Only this one is made in Arizona by a startup

called Specterworks. Now, they call this drone the FLM 136. I don't know what that means. The Pentagon calls it the low-cost unmanned combat attack

system. We got to have cool acronyms or Lucas. And for the first time, America's in the business of

one-way drone warfare, and we attacked Iran with our version last weekend. And Bill, I think the real

story here is that while SpecterWorks got

started on this thing during the Biden administration, it took just one year to get a prototype

out there and into the Pentagon's hands, actually the Peggs has hands personally. And it was

Trump's War Department that took one look at what was for sale, placed a big order almost right on the spot, and had Lucas ready for deployment in months

instead of years. If I'm not mistaken, the Shaheed is the 136. I think it's the Shahid 136. So

that's possibly where the number came from. That's just if memory serves. First of all, I hope, I hope that SpectorWork spells their name S-P-E-C-T-R-E, you know, the way, and I hope that their logo is an eight-headed cobra. Believe it or not. Oh, with the K? I was hoping for an eight-headed cobra. That's no more boss. Yeah, that's pretty boss.

Yeah, this is, you know, this is, I don't know what to say about it.

One of the things I think is most important is that it's yet another case of the Pentagon relying more and more on fast agile companies like Andero and a couple of others.

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