U.S. Army Drone Dominance Vision Meets Reality In Training Exercises

U.S. Army soldier handling drone

Soldiers learned how to integrate swarms of drones during large-scale exercises at Fort Irwin.

Credit: Sgt. Woodlyne Escarne/U.S. Army
Sprawling across the northeast rim of California’s Mojave Desert, the scrubby landscape of the Fort Irwin National Training Center is far from the fertile, rolling steppe of eastern Ukraine. But observers of recent exercises could be forgiven for noticing a similar obsession with militarized drones...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington, DC.

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