Army Pushes Back on Narrative Surrounding European Drone Battalion

Army pushes back on narrative surrounding European drone battalion

Army officials insisted today a decision wasn't recently made to deactivate a European drone battalion, but rather it was always meant to be a short-term experimental unit. The battalion within the 173rd Airborne Brigade was never “flagged to be a permanent centralized drone unit,” Alex Miller, the Army’s chief technology officer, said during a roundtable with reporters. “We've pushed back on having something like a drone corps since its incepti…

Army 'not walking away' from UAVs despite reverting drone unit back to infantry

The move prompted lawmaker concern, but Army CTO Alex Miller downplayed the flap, saying the service just may not have told the “full story fast enough.”

The US Army's special drone unit is returning to airborne infantry work. Officials say that was always the plan.

Drone lessons and tactics were never going to be centralized in the unit, officials said, and instead will be scaled across the Army.