The Army Is Unwinding the Drone Battalion It Built to Learn From Ukraine
The Army stood up a 600-soldier battalion in January to turn Ukraine's drone lessons into US tactics. Eight months later it is taking the drone mission away and has not said what replaces it.
The 600-soldier unit will return to airborne infantry duties eight months after the Army established it to develop drone and ground-robot tactics.
The Army will phase out its drone assault battalion after the Saber Junction exercise in Germany, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. An Army official said the unit will submit findings to guide future experimentation, shed its drone mission and "refocus on its core warfighting tasks as an airborne infantry battalion."
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