The US Army Is Getting Enough Drones, Official Says. Now, It Needs to Train Enough Operators

The US Army is getting enough drones, official says. Now, it needs to train enough operators.

The service is buying tens of thousands of drones and delivering them to troops. The next challenge is ensuring they know how to use them.

Understanding the Army's drone strategy

The Army is making progress on its mass acquisition of drones and its effort to get every soldier across the force trained up on them before relying on them in life-or-death situations in combat. The director of the Drone Dominance program, Col. Gregory Merkl, told reporters this week that the Army views unmanned and autonomous […]

The US Army is getting enough drones, official says. Now, it needs to train enough operators

Getting trained drone pilots down to the squadron level is the next step, an Army official said. Photo courtesy of the 11th Airborne Division The US Army is buying lots of drones to meet its goals of spreading the systems across the service. The next step is training enough pilots to operate…