Inside the Pentagon plan to Americanize drone warfare. Years of talk about rapidly scaling up drone forces have produced interesting prototypes and lively experiments with relatively small numbers of drones—but no clear sense of how the United States would conduct the kind of sustained drone warfare pioneered in Ukraine. A combination of recent developments, tech breakthroughs, and policy changes suggests that could soon change.

The T-REX event in Indiana brought together drone makers, AI, data, and communications software companies to show off not just how well new autonomous drones can hit targets, but also next steps for mass, coordinated drone warfare. Defense One’s Patrick Tucker was there, and pulls the strings together in this report .

The Army is equipping its Black Hawk

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