US Army officials say the service has amassed enough small drones to spread them across its formations. Now the challenge is training soldiers to use them.
“We fielded 10,000 drones” after the first phase of the Drone Dominance program, Col. Gregory Merkl, the director of drone dominance for the Army, said on Thursday during a media roundtable.
“We’re in the process of receiving another 30,000 drones currently,” he shared. “That is enough absolutely to get them down to every squad level.”
“Where we still have some work to do, candidly, is getting everybody trained at the appropriate level,” he said. “Right now, if you look across the force, you…
