Army Treats Drones as Replaceable Munitions in Europe
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At the Saber Junction exercise in Germany, the US Army deployed about 2,000 autonomous drones, roughly half of which were consumable and intended to be used and lost like ammunition under the Drone Dominance program, illustrating a shift to large stocks of low-cost, quickly replaceable drones to sustain battlefield sensing and strikes.
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