Summer military drone trials in Alaska reveal shortcomings for modernizing warfare

Summer military drone trials in Alaska reveal shortcomings for modernizing warfare

While fighter jets roared overhead during the annual Red Flag exercises at Eielson Air Force Base in late June, a quieter and far less known military trial was underway 20 miles away on a training range near Fort Wainwright, where the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) was running live-fire tests of small, long-range attack drones. […] The post Summer military drone trials in Alaska reveal shortcomings for modernizing warfare appeared firs…