Centcom Creates First ‘Multinational’ Attack Drone Task Force After Months of War with Iran
The unit will expand CENTCOM’s drone efforts as regional partners are invited and the Pentagon pushes low-cost attack systems.
- On Thursday, Central Command announced the creation of Task Force Falcon Strike, the first multidomain, multinational unit dedicated to one-way attack drones operating in the air, on the sea surface, and underwater.
- For the past year, CENTCOM has worked to accelerate technology delivery to troops, following a Pentagon-led $1 billion initiative to acquire hundreds of thousands of low-cost, one-way attack drones for use in the Middle East.
- Following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's call for rapid acquisition, Task Force Scorpion Strike deployed LUCAS offensive drones reverse-engineered from the Iranian Shahed-136 to combat in Operation Epic Fury.
- Adm. Brad Cooper stated that Task Force Falcon Strike will expand on previous successes by leveraging regional innovation, as CENTCOM initiates the process of inviting regional partners to join.
- The development of The Rapid Employment Joint Task Force, or REJTF, helps CENTCOM integrate new capabilities to rapidly realize possibilities for deployed forces on the horizon.
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