Half the drones in a recent US Army combat exercise were designed to be expendable like ammo0

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• September 20, 2026

The US Army brought thousands of drones to a recent combat exercise, and roughly half were designed to be expendable. Soldiers could use and lose the drones in the fight, treating them like ammunition. The Army’s shift toward using low-cost drones has relied on amassing enough systems to make them expendable. It’s getting tens of