CAMP ATTERBURY, Indiana– The Pentagon has been talking about rapidly scaling up drone forces for years —efforts that so far have produced interesting new prototypes and lively demonstrations. But while the services conduct experiments using small numbers of drones, there has not been a clear sense of how the United States would conduct sustained drone warfare, or how closely it would resemble what is happening today in Ukraine.

However, a combination of recent developments, tech breakthroughs, and policy changes suggests that could soon change. And the picture that has emerged is that future U.S. drone warfare will look like Ukraine—if Ukraine had had a cheat code before the Russian invasion.

The Technology Readiness Experimentation event, or T-REX, here this month brought together dr

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