AIRY SITUATION Inside USA’s million-drone army plot as tiny & inexpensive devices overtake warplanes as most potent front-line weapon

THE US Army has said it will buy one million drones in preparation for war.

Secretary of the Army Daniel P Driscoll announced that the US is looking to gear up with the tech within three years, and acknowledged “they are reshaping how humans inflict violence.”

The decision follows observations of the deadly application of drones in conflicts such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Secretary Driscoll told Reuters Friday, “We expect to purchase at least a million drones within the next two to three years.

“And we expect that at the end of one or two years from today, we will know that in a moment of conflict, we will be able to activate a supply chain that is robust enough and deep enough that we could activate to manufacture however many drones we would need.”

He also said last month, “If small arms defined the 20th century, drones will define the 21st.

“They are the perfect convergence of artificial intelligence, advanced materials, batteries and propulsion systems, sensor fusion, and more.

“They are reshaping how humans inflict violence on each other at a pace never witnessed in human history.

“They are cheap, modular, precise, multi-role, and scalable.

“And we will rapidly integrate them into our formations.

“For Soldiers, we want to push this tech to your formation so that you can employ it, improve it, and dominate with it.”

The plan follows the Army’s unveiling of a new uniform and grooming directive.

Plus, thousands of armed US forces are ramping up their presence off the coast of Venezuela as drones demolish drug-smuggling freighters in the Caribbean.