Since the U.S. strikes on Iran, it has launched waves of retaliatory drones against U.S. forces in the Middle East.

The Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration plan to jointly test a high-energy laser weapon designed to shoot down small drones at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The test, announced in early March 2026,

Iran has launched waves of Shahed drones to menace Persian Gulf nations. The U.S. has unleashed its own copycat on Iran. It’s a sign of how war is changing.

Why are billion-dollar air defence systems struggling to stop Iran’s $35,000 Shahed drones? Their slow speed, low altitude flight and swarm tactics are exposing costly vulnerabilities in modern missile defence.

Israel and the United States are testing new or little-known weapons in the Middle East war, including an Israeli "Sparrow" missile and an Iranian-inspired drone made in America then fired back at Iran.

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said its tests are meant to alleviate worries about how the lasers are used and to specifically address FAA concerns.

Iranian weapon debris, blown to pieces or mechanically crippled, keeps dropping from the Middle East sky. For that, we can thank heat-seeking satellites, military-grade malware and radar-jamming software,

The United States is dominating the skies above Iran. But math is not necessarily on America’s side. Iran is using low-cost drones for precision attacks in the Middle East. The United States and its allies have air defense systems capable of intercepting a vast majority of Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, which are sophisticated yet costly.

The drone's development comes as the Pentagon pushes to procure and field inexpensive drones to keep pace with adversaries.

The U.S. military's new Drone Killer Cartridge is designed as a cost-effective family of ammunition designed to increase a warfighter's probability of a hit against drone threats.

Prominent milbloggers raised concerns about what the US might have learned from Russia's war after the LUCAS was deployed in combat against Iran.