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By (https://www.twz.com/authors/howard-altman) Howard Altman ,  (https://www.twz.com/authors/tyler-rogoway) Tyler Rogoway      Published  Sep 20, 2026 4:09 PM EDT     (shahed-136-clone-found-by-florida-fisherman-eglin-afb-admits-it-lost-a-drone.html#comments)    0           (https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=twz.com) Add TWZ (opens in a new tab)      More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results.        (A Florida fishing charter boat found a Shahed-136 style drone while on an excursion Saturday.)   (Charlie Green)    The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy.   (handle_newsletter_email_submission) (be55d8db40)  (/air/shahed-136-clone-found-by-florida-fisherman-eglin-afb-admits-it-lost-a-drone)  (TWZInline) (0) Email address  (Enter your email) (Please enter a valid email address)  Sign Up  Thank you!      (https://recurrent.io/terms-and-conditions/) Terms of Service and(https://recurrent.io/privacy-policy/) Privacy Policy        A Florida fishing charter boat made a very unusual catch Saturday while operating near (https://www.twz.com/air/eglin-afb-pilot-likely-saw-a-lighting-balloon-not-a-ufo-pentagon-concludes) Eglin Air Force Base . Located in the western end of the Florida Panhandle, Eglin is home of the U.S. Air Force weapons test wing. (https://hotspotscharters.com/) Hot Spots Charters pulled a delta-wing aerial drone out of the water during an excursion, according local charter captain Charlie Green. The recovered drone closely resembles a clone of the (https://www.twz.com/news-features/what-does-a-shahed-136-really-cost) Iranian Shahed-136 one-way attack weapon, specifically the U.S. military’s (https://www.twz.com/air/u-s-deploys-shahed-136-clones-to-middle-east-as-a-warning-to-iran) Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) that(https://www.twz.com/news-features/lucas-kamikaze-drones-lauded-as-indispensable-by-u-s-admiral-in-charge-of-iran-war) took center stage during its first combat use in Operation Epic Fury. The target version of that drone is built by SpecktreWorks and is designated the FLM-136. It was originally designed for mimicking one-way attack munitions, specifically the Shahed-136, which it was reverse engineered from, for testing and training before (https://www.twz.com/news-features/how-americas-shahed-136-clone-became-an-indispensible-weapon-of-war) it was weaponized into LUCAS.  An Eglin AFB spokesperson told us the installation recently lost a drone, but would not confirm it was the same one found by Hot Spots Charters. “I can confirm that we were doing a test and the test article went down,” the spokesperson told us, declining to provide further details about what kind of drone, when it was lost or the location it went down. They referred us to the Pentagon, which could not immediately provide any additional details.  “The drone was found by local charter Capt. Daniel Arsenault with Hot Spots Charters,” said Green, who is also an aviation photographer whose work can be found at (https://www.facebook.com/AquaticCharlie) Aquatic Charlie on social media . “He saw the object at a distance and went over to check it out. When he did, he pulled a good size mahi-mahi out from underneath it, complementing his already stocked cooler full of fish from that morning charter. His passengers helped him haul it aboard.” ()  The drone found by Hot Spots Charters. (Charlie Green)   “Arsenault and his charter company did all the due diligence possible to notify local agencies of the recovery- and was eventually collected by one of them,” Green added. He did not know which agency. Images taken of the drone shared with us by Green show that it did not have the engine, propeller or the nose cone/seeker intact. Losing these kind of components is common for impacts into water.  ()  (Charlie Green)   While the Eglin spokesperson offered scant details, the host unit at the installation is the 96th Test Wing, which is the “test and evaluation center for Air Force air-delivered weapons, navigation and guidance systems, command and control systems, and Air Force Special Operations Command systems,” (https://www.eglin.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/390959/96th-test-wing/) according to the wing’s homepage . It oversees the massive Eglin Gulf Test Range, which “provides approximately 120,000 square miles of overwater airspace, covering the eastern third of the Gulf of Mexico from the Florida panhandle to the Florida Keys. The land range covers 724 square miles and contains 70 specific test and training areas, including an approved depleted uranium test range and the only qualified air-to-ground supersonic range east of the Mississippi River.” ()  Eglin Test Range. (Eglin Air Force Base)   As noted in the opening of this article, the LUCAS drone was (https://www.twz.com/news-features/u-s-military-has-used-long-range-kamikaze-drones-in-combat-for-the-first-time) used for the first time in combat during the opening day of the Operation Epic Fury war on Iran on Feb. 28.  “Costing approximately $35,000 per platform, LUCAS is a low-cost, scalable system that provides cutting-edge capabilities at a fraction of the cost of traditional long-range U.S. systems that can deliver similar effects,” Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesperson, told TWZ  when the command (https://www.twz.com/air/u-s-deploys-shahed-136-clones-to-middle-east-as-a-warning-to-iran) stood up Task Force Scorpion Strike (TFSS), the military’s first one-way attack drone unit, back in December. “The drone system has an extensive range and the ability to operate beyond line of sight, providing significant capability across CENTCOM’s vast operating area.” “LUCAS drones deployed by CENTCOM have an extensive range and are designed to operate autonomously,” CENTCOM added in a press release. “They can be launched with different mechanisms to include catapults, rocket-assisted takeoff, and mobile ground and vehicle systems.” TFSS falls under the auspices of U.S. Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT), which oversees U.S. special operations activities across the Middle East. (The cost to connect each of the U.S. military's Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) one-way attack drones to SpaceX's Starshield communications network is approximately $25,000 a month, according to a new report.)  A LUCAS drone. (NAVCENT/C5F/U.S. Army Spc. Kayla McGuire)  NAVCENT/C5F/U.S. Army Spc. Kayla Mc Guire   ()  A LUCAS drone. (Courtesy photo/Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division)   While we aren’t sure if the drone found by Hot Spots Charters is the one lost by Eglin, it wouldn’t be the first time something like this has happened in Florida. For example, in 2021, (https://www.twz.com/39863/high-performance-target-drone-washes-up-on-florida-beach) beachcombers in Florida’s Palm Beach County found a U.S. Air Force BQM-167A high-performance target drone that washed ashore.  BREAKING: Military drone washes up on beach at Ocean Ridge Hammock Park (https://t.co/JXMYTAdXcP) https://t.co/JXMYTAdXcP (https://t.co/rHW5Dyv94p) pic.twitter.com/rHW5Dyv94p  — WPTV (@WPTV) (https://x.com/WPTV/status/1372913683173675017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) March 19, 2021    Indeed, the Air Force has a handful of 120-foot boats, the only vessels in its service, to help recover drones after they are (https://www.twz.com/38472/watch-this-f-15-take-out-a-target-with-a-sidewinder-missile-at-very-close-range) shot down during live-fire exercises , or otherwise need to be recovered from these waters. The boats are operated by a contracted crew from Florida Offshore and retrieve around 100 of the drones each year. The FLM-136’s origins as a target drone are highly relevant here. Counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities are being hotly pursued on all fronts across the U.S. military as the threat from them has ballooned. During the war in Ukraine and multiple engagements with Iran, including Operation Epic Fury, one-way attack drones have proven to be a massive threat that is heavily influencing how wars are fought. As far as Eglin AFB goes, maybe the most high-profile C-UAS development as of late that has emerged from there has been arming USAF fighters with FALCO (https://www.twz.com/category/laser-guided-rockets) APKWS laser-guided rockets to shoot down exactly the same kind of threat that the FLM-136 is meant to emulate. This program(https://www.twz.com/31615/air-force-tests-laser-guided-rockets-in-the-air-to-air-role-to-shoot-down-cruise-missiles) began in 2019, which TWZ was first to report on, but was (https://www.twz.com/air/f-16s-have-been-using-laser-guided-rockets-to-shoot-down-houthi-drones) finally rushed into service years later as the standoff with Iran went hot. Now there are many other programs aimed at dealing with these same threats, including a more (https://www.twz.com/air/infrared-seeker-for-apkws-guided-70mm-rockets-unveiled) capable “fire and forget” air-to-air APKWS .  ()  A 2019 test of air-to-air APKWS laser-guided rockets occurred off Eglin AFB. (USAF)   LUCAS development is continuing at a high-pace, with its ability to swarm cooperatively with other LUCAS drones — a feature we reported as central to the LUCAS vision when the existence of the program was disclosed — being worked on now. You can read more about this (https://www.twz.com/sponsored-content/shield-ais-hivemind-demonstrates-collaborative-autonomy-in-firejet-drones-flight-test) here . These systems need sanitized airspace for development activities, and the vast ranges over the gulf are some of the best in the country for it.  So, it’s not surprising to see an FLM-136 floating in the waters off Eglin AFB. Even in the war with Iran, there were multiple losses of LUCAS drones where they were found intact. These weapons are produced to be risked in large numbers, and some failing, for whatever reason, is just part of the calculus.  Locals in Iraq appear to have recovered a crashed and almost entirely intact Low-Cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS), an American copy of the Iranian Shahed-136 Attack Drone, which is confirmed to have been used recently by Task Force Scorpion Strike during U.S. attacks on… (https://t.co/SEqO6627en) pic.twitter.com/SEqO6627en  — OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) (https://x.com/sentdefender/status/2028592472499142951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) March 2, 2026    We will update this story with any additional details we can find about this drone. Though we don’t yet know for sure where it came from, one thing is for certain, the folks on the Hot Spots Charters boat that found it will always have a good tale about the one that didn’t get away. 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