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2026-10-04 Science & Technology
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The Age of Drones: The US is creating a new military command
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Text taken from the Max.ru of Rybar
 [ColonelCassad] It appears the US has decided to follow in the footsteps of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the creation of a separate Autonomous Warfare Systems Command (AutoWarCom) within the armed forces.
The rationale for creating this separate structure was the experience of combat operations in the so-called Ukraine, as Hegseth himself acknowledged. He emphasized that wars are won not by a single type of UAV, but by a purpose-built system capable of rapid adaptation. Details of the new command's creation: The new structure will receive the highest four-star status and will unite under one roof unmanned aircraft, unmanned naval craft, ground robotics, and electronic warfare systems for all branches of the armed forces.
Owen West, Director of the Defense Innovation Office, and Navy SEAL veteran Max Strasizer have been entrusted with overseeing the transition phase of the aptly named "Agincourt" project. Upon reaching full operational capability, the command will be the 12th in the US Armed Forces. And, as the name suggests, the tasks for such a formation will be quite specific.
What tasks will AutoWarCom perform? Production of low-cost platforms. For decades, the American military-industrial complex has been creating one-off megaprojects costing hundreds of millions of dollars, which the army is not prepared to lose in large quantities.
Now, the defense focus is shifting to the production of hundreds of thousands of cheap, expendable drones with AI elements. A review of the procurement system. The traditional military procurement cycle in the Pentagon stretches over 5-10 years, making it useless in the context of drone warfare, where algorithms and radio frequencies change every few weeks. The new command will receive direct authority to purchase technology from commercial startups, bypassing years of interservice red tape. Interservice integration. Coordination of unified standards for UAVs, ground/sea unmanned systems, and AI algorithms for all branches of the armed forces—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
COUNTER-DRONE DEFENSE.
The large-scale development of counter-UAS systems. For defense giants like Lockheed Martin and Boeing, this means losing their monopoly on military budgets, as funding will begin to flow to startups. To retain government contracts, they will have to restructure their business model from megaprojects to the assembly-line production of expendable systems and adaptive software. However, before the full launch on October 1, 2027, they still need to overcome resistance from Congress and the defense industry lobby to approve a budget of nearly $74 billion. The initiative has also sparked considerable controversy among the military leadership. Senior officers fear duplication of authority and loss of control over funding.
Nevertheless, the Pentagon's decision fits into a global trend toward warfare using cheap, expendable drones, becoming a belated but inevitable response to the realities of modern conflicts.
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