12 February 2026

US containerized drone swarms no silver bullet vs China

Gabriel Honrada

As the US races to deploy containerized drone swarms as a key future warfare element, the effort reveals questions about whether drones are a real revolution or a workaround for institutional limits.

This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that the US military has launched a formal effort to solicit industry proposals for containerized systems capable of storing, launching, recovering and servicing large numbers of drones on both land and sea, as part of a broader push to expand its uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) inventory.

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has outlined a project called the Containerized Autonomous Drone Delivery System (CADDS), aiming to replace manual launch and recovery with automated, rapid deployment of large quantities of UAS in contested environments.

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