Steve Trimble
Sprawling across the northeast rim of California’s Mojave Desert, the scrubby landscape of the Fort Irwin National Training Center is far from the fertile, rolling steppe of eastern Ukraine. But observers of recent exercises could be forgiven for noticing a similar obsession with militarized drones.
The Pentagon’s six-month-old Drone Dominance Program is intended to field more than 340,000 small uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) by the end of next year, and U.S. Army units are scrambling.September exercise exposed gaps in drone readiness
Power generation, battery supply and interference presented hurdles
Regiment-size units, which seldom possess more than a handful of small UAS at any time, are racing to prepare for the logistical and operational realities of fighting with hundreds—if not thousands—of drones, as they train during the large-scale exercises staged annually at Fort Irwin.
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