Don't go along with any slander of resistance in general, or of the Axis in particular
I want the targets of genocide in Palestine and Lebanon to live and I really want to see the liberation of Palestine
Push back against bullshit "terrorist" labels. That label is false + is a pretext for murder.
![(Yankee Technical: a LUCAS on the back of a shitty expensive *new* white Toyota truck, its front clearly made for smashin' deer)
A LUCAS drone being launched by a Toyota pickup. (Indiana National Guard)
Q: How could weapons like LUCAS fill in the U.S. magazine depth?
A: I think the math would suggest that building 400 Tomahawks would give you 46,000 LUCAS rounds. And so if you think about this range of capabilities that includes something like LUCAS and like other really super low-cost systems – up through the family of affordable mass missiles that the Air Force is working on – you’re just talking about like a whole new level of depth in the magazine for the American military.
This is absolutely necessary for the U.S. to continue to compete successfully in the Indo-Pacific in particular, but also in general, as we’re seeing in the Iran context. But the system had been designed for so long to only procure small numbers of the best systems, and it was challenging to [change that]. There’s now a lot of momentum behind that, but it was challenging to get things moving in the other direction.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5ssplezgplhg5fnrop4c6pq/bafkreihvzqthj27qf6va6izdaj5dxvqq6vs5sl3c4em6mqhymsugqwebpi)
![Q: Who in the Pentagon made the decision to push this forward while you were there?
A: Eventually, we successfully persuaded then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks that, especially at the price point, this was a risk worth taking.
By the way, just to be clear about one thing, [Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Prototyping and Experimentation] Alex Lovett is really the hero of this story in many ways. He both discovered the concept and moved it forward even after all of the original team that supported the LUCAS had left the government. He did incredible work in R&E in making the LUCAS a reality. The people who really deserve the credit are Alex, the CENTCOM team that accelerated it, and Arizona-based SpektreWorks, the company that made it.
(US LUCAS drone on a support, middle of a field)
In an unprecedented demonstration of rapid innovation, the Indiana National Guard hosted the T-REX experimentation framework that was instrumental in advancing the Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System, also known as LUCAS, from a public demonstration to operational employment in seven months.
In an unprecedented demonstration of rapid innovation, the Indiana National Guard hosted the T-REX experimentation framework that was instrumental in advancing the Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System, also known as LUCAS, from a public demonstration to operational employment in seven months. Indiana National Guard Headquart](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5ssplezgplhg5fnrop4c6pq/bafkreieucdwad4giicxy7bkqfiunf7qq7gy3mszezs6xgfy7dvyleddray)
