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The Netherlands will deploy about 1,000 drone and counter-drone personnel across combat brigades to enhance battlefield protection and adapt to modern drone warfare.
- The Netherlands will integrate specialized drone operators and counter-drone units into combat brigades, deploying 1,000 to 1,200 personnel, Dutch Chief of Defence Gen. Onno Eichelsheim announced.
- Armed forces across Europe are adapting to mass drone warfare, with lessons from Ukraine showing unmanned systems account for over 80% of targets destroyed.
- The Netherlands ordered Skyranger anti-drone cannons, as Eichelsheim stated drone warfare requires a 'completely different approach' to industry collaboration.
- While the Netherlands' Eichelsheim disputed President Donald Trump's claim that the United States is "getting very close to its objectives," he noted Iran remains "nowhere near halfway" through missile stocks.
- The Netherlands and allies are currently inventorying capabilities to secure the Strait of Hormuz, while Eichelsheim cautioned that planning is "really still right at the very beginning.
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Top Dutch General Announces Addition of Drone & Counter-Drone Units to Every Combat Formation in the Military
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The Netherlands is preparing to start creating units of UAV operators that integrate into the structure of the armed forces
The Netherlands is to be the first NATO country to have drone and anti-drone forces in all combat units.
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