LUCAS

Form, sound & identification limits

• The Aviationist, 3 December 2025: “On Dec. 3, 2025, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) launched Task Force Scorpion Strike (TFSS), which will oversee the U.S. military’s first OWA drone squadron.” It reports that the design was reverse-engineered from a captured Shahed-136 and was first meant to emulate that threat in training.^[1]
• SpektreWorks gives its FLM 136 target-drone variant a 350-nautical-mile range, six hours’ endurance, a 3 m length and a 2.5 m wingspan (as reported by The Aviationist). The same article adds: “It is unclear if these specifications reflect the ones of the LUCAS variant deployed in the Middle East.” The range is converted exactly (350 nmi × 1.852 = 648.2 km); none of these is a measured combat value.^[1]
• Defense News describes a wingspan “of about 8 feet” (about 2.4 m) and writes that LUCAS drones “bear similarities to Iran’s Shahed-136 drones”. A similar layout does not make the two interchangeable: Shahed-136 values are not applied to LUCAS, and LUCAS values are not applied to Shahed-136.^[2]

Shape or sound alone cannot identify a drone. Follow local public-safety alerts; do not approach wreckage.