How the US Military Is Training a Drone Army 400 Miles From Ukraine

The US Army announced it will invest $36 billion over the next five years to modernize its force, with a heavy emphasis on drone technology.

Graham Flanagan, Business Insider’s chief video correspondent, went inside a combat training exercise with the Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment in southern Germany, where soldiers are learning to assemble, operate, and fly drones used for both reconnaissance and attack capabilities.

The 2CR drone pilots train at the Drone Innovation Cell in Vilseck, Germany, before heading to a training area in the Bavarian countryside to deploy the technology in a training event known as STX Lanes, which stands for “situational training exercise.”