{"id":123995,"date":"2026-03-12T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/brett-velicovich-iran-built-a-drone-terror-machine-america-just-hacked-it-123995"},"modified":"2026-03-12T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:18:00","slug":"brett-velicovich-iran-built-a-drone-terror-machine-america-just-hacked-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/brett-velicovich-iran-built-a-drone-terror-machine-america-just-hacked-it-123995","title":{"rendered":"BRETT VELICOVICH: Iran built a drone terror machine \u2014 America just hacked it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran continue, one thing is clear: this is not the kind of war we have spent decades planning for. There are no massed formations or carrier battle groups trading salvos. This conflict is being fought with swarms of relatively inexpensive, one-way drones<\/a>. Adaptation and rapid innovation now determine how conflicts are fought.<\/p>\n

Iran has spent years perfecting saturation warfare. The concept is straightforward: flood the sky with enough drones and missiles to exhaust the enemy\u2019s interceptors, force impossible triage decisions and eventually break through. Iran has targeted hotels, tourist centers and locations without hardened counter-drone systems. Iran\u2019s kamikaze drones, called Shaheds, are low, slow and persistent. They aren\u2019t technically sophisticated, but they are difficult to stop in large numbers. This isn\u2019t a failure of U.S. technology. It\u2019s a logistics and economics problem that we need to solve and adapt to. And we\u2019re already doing that.<\/p>\n

For the first time, the U.S. has deployed the LUCAS system<\/a> \u2014 a one-way attack drone modeled directly on Iran\u2019s own Shahed design \u2014 in combat. The system was developed by reverse-engineering downed Iranian drone systems in Ukraine and rebuilding them with American guidance systems, hardened navigation and real-time targeting integration into our intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) networks. Then we sent them back to Iran to destroy their infrastructure.<\/p>\n

KEANE WARNS IRAN STRIKE BECOMING \u2018REGIONAL WAR,’ SAYS THREE GULF STATES PREPARING FOR COMBAT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

LUCAS was used in the opening strike, hitting Iranian drone manufacturing sites<\/a> and other weapons infrastructure before advanced fighters followed. These drones aren\u2019t just munitions; they\u2019re nodes in a combat cloud, receiving real-time targeting updates and networked with intelligence assets in ways Iran’s drones cannot match.<\/p>\n

While Iran is building volume, the U.S. is building systems. This distinction matters.<\/p>\n

This operation has also marked the largest-scale deployment of AI models<\/a> across the U.S. Department of War in history. From intelligence assessments to target identification to battle scenario simulation, AI has been part of the decision cycle at every level. This precision has been another point of delineation between the two sides. While Tehran responds with indiscriminate barrages hitting civilian areas, U.S. strikes are being driven<\/a> by layered intelligence, refined targeting and a disciplined operational picture. That gap in approach is not only strategic but ethical.<\/p>\n

But there are still areas where we\u2019re adapting. The cost dynamics of this new approach remain unresolved. The U.S. has traditionally favored high-tech, expensive weapons systems requiring extensive training and planning. But when the adversary has more drones than you have interceptors, the math turns against you fast.<\/p>\n

CARGO SHIP HIT BY PROJECTILE IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ WHILE IRAN LAUNCHES FRESH ATTACKS ON MIDDLE EAST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Relying on high-cost interceptors to counter cheap, easy-to-produce drones is not a sustainable equation. The answer isn\u2019t to outgun; it\u2019s to intelligently adapt \u2014 and to do so quickly. Lower-cost, high-speed, combat-proven intercept platforms designed to counter one-way attack drones, including the Shahed-136, Geran-2 and other Group 3-class unmanned threats, are what this new battlefield demands.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the lesson Ukraine has been teaching<\/a> for years \u2014 and one this conflict is reinforcing in real time: no military in the world is adequately prepared to stop cheap, mass-produced one-way drones at scale. Not yet. The U.S. industrial base<\/a> has the capacity to change that. The constraint is understanding the new reality and deciding to move on it.<\/p>\n

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Iran spent<\/a> years developing and proliferating the Shahed<\/a> as a tool of destabilization, deploying it in Yemen, Iraq and Ukraine, and against American forces across the region. Now, a version of that same weapon has been turned against the factories that produce it.<\/p>\n

As of today, the Islamic Republic is in unprecedented internal chaos. Leadership is scrambling, and the regime\u2019s command-and-control picture is unclear even to those inside it. That uncertainty creates both opportunity and risk. Precision matters more \u2014 not less \u2014 in these moments.<\/p>\n

This conflict will be decided by the side that adapts fastest, identifying problems and finding solutions on a compressed timeline. Though the U.S. drone industry isn\u2019t where it needs to be, real-world, battle-tested deployment is how capability gaps get closed. What we learn here will shape doctrine, acquisition and industrial strategy for the next decade.<\/p>\n

America just delivered one of the most significant demonstrations of adaptive military capability in modern history. The question isn\u2019t whether we can innovate \u2014 it\u2019s whether we\u2019re prepared to build the industrial and defensive infrastructure at the scale and speed this new era demands.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The answer to that question isn\u2019t decided on a battlefield. It\u2019s decided here at home \u2014 where we invest and how seriously we take the threat. The conflict with Iran has made that choice unavoidable.<\/p>\n

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Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/brett-velicovich-iran-built-drone-terror-machine-america-just-hacked <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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