The Pentagon expects to field hundreds of thousands of kamikaze drones for the U.S. military by the end of 2026, announced U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during a speech at an event in Washington organized by the U.S. Army, APA reports.
According to Hegseth, the Pentagon "has received $1 billion in funding to ensure dominance in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)." "When we started this effort, there wasn't a single expendable [unmanned] systems program in the Defense Department. Ultimately, we'll field hundreds of thousands of expendable systems this year, and in the years to come, that number will grow at a rate never seen before in this department, reaching into the millions," Hegseth said.
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