Air Force set on quickly expanding its stock of offensive drones

By Vanessa Montalbano / July 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As the Pentagon ups the ante on its arsenal of small uncrewed aerial systems, the Air Force is following suit by seeking nearly $5 million to start a new program for small offensive drones. The offensive small unmanned aircraft systems effort “identifies requirements addressing capability gaps in the [Air Force] ability to rapidly generate a family of sUAS capable of executing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, electronic warfare and precision strike in permissive, contested and denied environments,” the Air Force wrote...

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