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2026-09-01 -Land of the Free
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US Army Phase Out ‘Lessons Learned’ Experimental Drone Unit
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[TheHill] The U.S. Army plans to phase out a drone unit that was studying and incorporating lessons from foreign wars, including the use of uncrewed systems in the Russia-Ukraine war, an Army official confirmed to The Hill on Thursday.
The infantry battalion, known as the Unmanned Assault Battalion, will participate at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center this month and next month in Germany. After the exercises, the battalion will “refocus on its core warfighting tasks as an airborne infantry battalion assigned to a Mobile Brigade Combat Team (Airborne),” the official said.
The unit is part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, a quick-reaction light infantry brigade team stationed in Vicenza, Italy. It was championed by former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, who was ousted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier this year.
The U.S. Army Europe and Africa, with the backing of the Army and U.S. European Command, tasked the infantry battalion to “prototype an employment concept for a tactical unmanned systems battalion,” the official said.
The unit was also championed by Gen. Chris Donahue, the former commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, whose July removal by Hegseth divided Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
| As DarthVader pointed out when we first saw this story: |
Yes, the specialized battalions are being removed. They are being broken up and pushed down to the infantry battalions as an integrated part of the unit. Lessons from Ukraine showed that this capability embedded at the smaller unit worked a lot better.
So no U-turn, more of a redeployment into the actual units that will need them. | Has anything more been reported on this or other similar reorganizations? This is a good opportunity to follow up on an interesting way the US military is being renewed by the Hegseth team. |
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