On July 16, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held up a drone at a Pentagon event. It had a delta wing, a pusher propeller, and a silhouette that anyone who had watched the war in Ukraine would recognize immediately. It was a copy of the Iranian Shahed-136, the kamikaze drone that Russia had fired by the thousands into Ukrainian cities, the weapon Iran distributed to Houthi proxies in Yemen, the airframe that humiliated Western air defense systems through sheer volume and cheapness. Except this one was American. Built by an Arizona startup called SpektreWorks from a captured Iranian airframe.
Seven months later, on February 28, 2026, CENTCOM confirmed that the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System flew in combat for the first time during Operation Epic Fury. Against Iran. The country that designed the original.
CENTCOM’s statement was direct: “Task Force Scorpion Strike, for the first time in history, is using one-way attack drones in combat during Operation Epic Fury. These low-cost drones, modeled after Iran’s Shahed drones, are now delivering American-made retribution.” Task Force Scorpion Strike was established in December 2025 with an explicit mandate. A US official told The War Zone the unit was created “to flip the script on Iran.” On December 16, a LUCAS drone was test-launched from the Littoral Combat Ship USS Santa Barbara in the Persian Gulf. Ten weeks later, the script was flipped.
Here is the economics. A Tomahawk cruise missile costs approximately $2 million. LUCAS costs $35,000. For the price of a single Tomahawk, you can launch 57 LUCAS drones. A Shahed-136 in Russian production costs approximately $80,000 per unit at the Alabuga facility. The American reverse-engineered version costs less than half the Russian licensed copy of the Iranian original. SpektreWorks received a $30 million initial production contract. That buys 857 kamikaze drones for what the Navy spends maintaining a handful of Tomahawks.
But cost is not the real story. The original Shahed-136 navigates by pre-programmed GPS and inertial guidance. It flies to a fixed coordinate and detonates. It cannot be retargeted in flight. It cannot communicate with other drones. It cannot adapt. LUCAS integrates with the MUSIC mesh network, a multi-domain unmanned systems communications architecture that allows each drone to function simultaneously as a strike weapon and a communications relay node. Some units carry Starlink terminals, specifically the military Starshield variant, enabling beyond-line-of-sight satellite communications, real-time human oversight, and autonomous swarm coordination in GPS-denied and electronically jammed environments. The original Shahed is a flying bomb with a coordinate. The American version is a networked intelligence node that happens to explode.
Russian military commentators are already sounding alarms. The integration of Starlink with a mass-producible airframe represents a threat class that existing electronic warfare cannot reliably counter. You cannot jam a mesh network the same way you jam a GPS receiver. The drone that does not reach its target still relays targeting data for the drone behind it. Every unit the enemy shoots down costs the defender more in interceptor ammunition than the attacker spent building it. That is the Shahed math, the logic Iran invented and Russia perfected in Ukraine. The United States just applied it to the country that wrote the equation.
Seven months from Pentagon debut to combat deployment. For context, a traditional major defense acquisition program takes seven years to reach Milestone B. Iran spent a decade refining the Shahed-136.
The United States reverse-engineered it, improved it, networked it, and sent it home in under a year.
https://t.co/BrzGRrU3VW
Operation Epic Fury.
President Trump has been willing to do what’s right and necessary to produce real peace in the region.
God bless the United States, our great military, and Israel.
“Nor’easter ‘bomb cyclone’ hammers Carolinas with record snow, intense winds” (FOX). “Snow and blizzards move into US east coast as 85 dead from last week’s storm” (The Guardian). The latest targeted region for winter weather warfare was the Carolinas, the climate engineers are chemically cooling the East Coast. It's far past time for so called academia to acknowledge the climate engineering / weather warfare onslaught.
Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, January 31, 2026, #547
Follow us for more: @geoengwatch
🚨🚨 Here is the entire TRAINING MANUAL for domestic terrorist patrols chasing ICE agents in Minneapolis.
Keep in mind, this is the watered down opsec version.
MUST READ ⬇️
You keep comparing Trump to Hitler, ICE to the Gestapo, America to 1930s Germany.
Fine. Let’s play your game.
Let’s see what actually happens if the mask slips and your nightmare becomes real.
Imagine the switch flips overnight.
Trump doesn’t tweet anymore. He speaks once, calmly, on every screen at once. No more campaigns, no more debates, no more appeals to voters. Just orders.
Congress is dissolved “for the duration of the emergency.”
The courts are “reorganized.”
The media outlets that spent years calling him Hitler are shuttered in a single dawn raid...transmitters smashed, editors vanished.
The ones that remain read only what the new Ministry of Truth provides.
ICE...no longer a bureaucracy in windbreakers...steps out in crisp black uniforms with silver death’s heads on the collars.
The transformation is deliberate, theatrical, unmistakable. They don’t hide the symbolism; they revel in it.
The message is simple: resistance is obsolete.
And you?
You’re first.
Not because you’re the biggest threat...you’re not. You’re soft, disorganized, addicted to validation and dopamine hits from likes and retweets.
You’re first because you’re loud, visible, and already self-identified. The regime needs examples early, while the memory of freedom is still fresh.
Terror works best when people can still remember what they lost.
They come for you at 4 a.m.
No warrants, no livestreams, no body cams.
Black vans, no plates.
Doors kicked in.
You’re dragged out in whatever you slept in, zip-tied, hooded. Your phones are confiscated and bricked on the spot. Your social media accounts are wiped.
The algorithm no longer knows you exist.
The holding facilities aren’t the border detention centers you loved to scream about. Those were holiday camps compared to what’s built now.
These are repurposed warehouses in the middle of nowhere, ringed with razor wire and watchtowers. No NGOs, no lawyers, no press tours.
You’re stripped, hosed down with ice water, issued a gray jumpsuit with a number. Your name is never spoken again.
Interrogation is methodical. They already have everything...your posts, your group chats, your donor lists, your face from a thousand cameras. They just want you to admit what you are.
Most of you break fast. You were never trained for this; you thought courage was a hashtag. You denounce your friends for a crust of bread and a blanket.
The ones who don’t break… disappear deeper. No trials, no headlines. Just silence.
The lucky ones get shipped to the new labor camps springing up in the desert.
Guards who’ve been told you’re traitors, terrorists, enemies of the people.
A beating for looking up. A bullet for trying to run.
The unlucky ones are made examples on live broadcasts. Not many...just enough.
A show trial that lasts twenty minutes.
Then the public execution, streamed in high definition so everyone understands the new rules.
Within six months the resistance is a ghost story whispered by people who no longer dare say your names.
And the streets?
Quiet.
Just order. And fear.
That, you stupid, comfortable, historically illiterate fucks, is what actual authoritarianism looks like.
Not mean tweets.
Not “fascist” rhetoric that hurts your feelings.
Not even mass deportations of illegal immigrants...which, by the way, most of the country supports.
You take for granted the right to call the president a tyrant to his face, to burn the flag, to riot without being shot in the street...and you think that proves the tyranny is already here.
You have no idea how good you have it.
You have no idea how fast it can all vanish.
So keep rioting, keep smashing, keep comparing your democratic disappointments to the fucking Shoah.
Just understand this: the real thing, when it comes, will not announce itself with a Trump tweet.
It will arrive in the dark.
With vans.
And lists.
And by then, no one will be left to hear you scream.
💀🔪
And for the ones that choose not to poison their families, the sacrifices are huge as organic, less processed, real food groceries climbed even higher. Our family of four is over $3000/month for grass fed, pasture raised, whole food’s without inflammatory seed oils, or carcinogenic or hormone disrupting ingredients.
US grocery prices have never been more expensive:
The average cost of groceries for a family of 4 is now up to a record $1,030/month.
This marks a +$280 increase since January 2017, when the average family spent $750 a month.
In 2021-2022 alone, grocery costs surged by +$150.
To put this differently, a family of 4 now spends over $12,360/year on groceries, compared to $9,000 in 2017.
We are in an affordability crisis.
So, let me get this straight:
With the release of Epstein’s emails, we found out that
- Epstein hated Trump.
- Didn’t trust him.
- They weren’t friends.
- The NYT directly worked with Epstein to suppress stories about him.
- After Bradley Edwards (the lawyer for the accusers) said that Trump was the only individual to cooperate and help, Epstein said Trump didn’t have “one decent cell in his body.”
- This was all so compelling that the democrats faked the redaction of a supposed victim’s name.
- The name they blocked was Virginia Giuffre, who publicly testified that Trump was innocent.
- Oh, and also, Russiagate was confirmed a hoax, just like we said.
Are democrats retarded?
Our skies are being sprayed and it’s hurting American farmers!!
This farmer just proved his soil has 5x more aluminum than before. His natural crops are dying, while GMO seeds grow just fine.
My Clear Skies Act stops dangerous geoengineering and weather modification programs that are poisoning our land and threatening our food supply!!
No more spraying chemicals in our skies. No more experiments on the American people.
Hard-working farmers deserve clean air, clean soil, and honesty from their government. ☀️🇺🇸
I worked under your FAA @PeteButtigieg and, after 34 years, mostly as an Air Traffic Controller, I retired because of how you and the Biden administration, to use your words, shit on every employee at the FAA and ruined a once fine agency.
You allowed men into my office bathroom.
I had to work with and for people you hired and promoted because of the color of their skin or who they have sex with who were wholly and completely unqualified for their job.
You FORCED me to inject an experimental dangerous drug into my body in order to keep my job and paycheck.
As for what the current ATC's "have been through", every single one of them is eligible for an interest-free loan program which their credit unions initiate during every government shutdown. As well, they all can withdraw from their TSP accounts. Every FAA employee knows these are both well established, common practices during shutdowns, so the only ones not coming to work are the ones making a political statement.
President Trump is right to call them out.
You, sir, can sit down and shut up.
"The Vaccine Program Needs To Stop...It's Not Like We Can 'Tweak It' & Make It Better"
Dr Sherri Tenpenny, DO
"It Is Long Overdue That We Recognize That Injecting Foreign Matter Into Little Babies Is In No Way Improving Their Health"
"This Multi Generational Myth Needs To Stop"
It is a 200 year multi generational myth & indoctrination that vaccines are safe, effective, necessary & harmless.
Not even one vaccine has ever been proven to be safe thru long robust safety studies using an inert saline placebo.
If a child, by the time they are 18, gets all of the vaccines in the entire 72 dose schedule, they get 13,000 mcg of Aluminum, 600 mcg of Mercury & 200 toxic chemicals injected directly into their system.
Every 'well child' appointment involves up to 8 shots for the vulnerable infant involving 100s of ingredients such as:
Human Harvested Organ Vaccine Ingredients...
HEK-293: Human Embryo Kidney
MRC-5: Human Lung
WI-38: Human Lung
RA 27-3: Human Kidney
PER-C6: Human Retina
IMR-90: Human Lung
WALVAX-2: Human Lung
Animal Harvested Organ Vaccine Ingredients...
MDCK: Madin Darby Canine Kidney
VERO: African Green Monkey Kidney
FRHL: Fetal Rhesus Monkey Lung
CHO: Chinese Hamster Ovary
PK-15: Pork Kidney
RK-13: Rabbit Kidney
SF-21: Fall Armyworm Ovary
Additives, Adjuvants & Toxicant Vaccine Ingredients...
Aluminum
Formaldehyde
Polysorbate 80
Kanamycin
Neomycin
mRNA
M59 Squalene
Acetone
Sodium Borate (Borax)
2-Phenoxyethanol (Phenol)
SV40
Triton X-100
FBS Fetal Bovine Serum
Bovine Extract & Albumin
Poultry Serum
Egg Albumin
Glycerol
Pork Gelatin
Beef Gelatin
Potassium Chloride
The most recent harvested human organ for vaccine research is WALVAX-2 which is the lung from a 3 month old unborn baby taken in 2015. This was 1 baby of 10 in total, in which organs were harvested for research & vaccine development.
👇Vaccine Excipient Summary List👇
https://t.co/TBuG7o3Olt
👇Vaccinated Versus Unvaccinated Study👇
https://t.co/Xh5jowC0DF
👇Vaccine Induced Neurodevelopment Disorders👇
https://t.co/gZNKAdaGMx
Speakers: @delbigtree & @BusyDrT
Podcast: @HighWireTalk
Farm Action’s Angela Huffman just revealed how the Trump Administration CAVED to Big Ag and derailed MAHA.
She called the MAHA Report from May “the boldest statement out of the government that I’ve ever seen.”
But then, Big Ag stepped in and blocked MAHA’s boldest reforms.
“The MAHA Commission called out corporate consolidation and corporate influence on government policy.”
“They called out pesticide dependence.”
“They called out our really distorted subsidy system whereby billions in taxpayer-funded farm subsidies are going to push farmers to grow commodity crops like corn and soybeans.”
“These are not food-grade crops. These are used for livestock feed. They’re used for ethanol. They’re even used for ultra-processed foods.”
“After this really outstanding report came out in May, there was a huge pushback from corporate agribusiness interests.”
“It seems the White House caved in a little bit because they admitted to meeting with over 100 agribusiness executives to get their input as they put together the MAHA strategy.”
“The strategy was disappointing because it didn’t meet those problems head-on that they identified earlier this year.”
“And it really seems that industry influence had a role in that.”
@ChildrensHD
“Prior to 1968 a person was declared dead only after their breathing and heart stopped for a determinate period of time. The current terminology "Brain Death" was unheard of. When surgeons realized they had the capability of taking organs from one seemingly “close to death” person and implanting them into another person to keep the recipient alive longer, a "Pandora’s Box" was opened.”
Dr. Paul Byrne
https://t.co/1my7qBzr1C
This panic about food stamps (SNAP/EBT) is a national and international humiliation and disgrace.
This country's entire history and culture is about agronomy, enterprise, independence, and capacity of a people to feed themselves in a new land. That's the whole point of celebrating Thanksgiving.
That so many people, stores, and whole industries would be so dependent on tax-funded government handouts is utterly disgusting. It's beneath us as a people.
Meet Lindsey Helfrey Scott.
She’s the Chairwoman of the Crawford County democrats.
Here is Lindsey at a “No Kings” protest holding up a guitar that says, “FDT 8647.”
Btw, do you remember Chris Condon — the Meadville Area Middle School teacher that celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination?
Lindsey is friends with him. The only reason why I discovered Chris is b/c he replied to one of her posts.
Is this really what the democrat party has become — celebrating assassinations & wishing violence on President Trump?
Pennsylvania democrats should immediately call on Lindsey to resign, but you know they won’t.
Speaks volumes.
📍Crawford County, PA
Just began reading Way of the Warrior Kid by @jockowillink to my 6 year old son yesterday. Today he woke up before the sun asking to do pushups, squats, and sit-ups before breakfast. His bed is made.
Parenting now requires us to teach our children two important criteria for finding a spouse: 1) verify unjabbed status, 2) (perhaps more controversial) verify they weren’t a frozen IVF science project.
Do people even hear themselves “write” anymore? Am I the only one with the opinion that every post, email, and article sounds the exact same now? ChatGPT seemingly can’t even write at a proper English 101 level. There’s taking liberties with writing, and then there’s ChatGPT.