CENTCOM commander: US using "new capabilities" aiding war with Iran

The United States is fielding “a number of new capabilities” in the war with Iran, said Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of the United States Central Command, CNN reports.

The US isn’t just using expensive weapons to intercept relatively cheap ones, he explained.

“If I just walk back a couple of years, you remember you used to always hear, ‘we’re shooting down a $50,000 drone with a $2 million missile.’ These days, we’re spending a lot of time shooting down $100,000 drones with $10,000 weapons,” he told reporter on March 5 during a press conference at US Central Command.

He also said the LUCAS attack drones, a system the US developed after capturing and reverse-engineering Iranian drones, have been “indispensable.”