The Pentagon plans to request $50 billion for the mass production of drones, involving hundreds of thousands of unmanned systems, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said at the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army.

According to him, UAS technologies should be available to the armed forces in significantly larger quantities.

“This year alone, we will be talking about hundreds of thousands of one-way attack drones, and in the coming years—millions. Our department has never seen such a pace before,” the Pentagon chief said (quoted by Defense News).

The $50 billion is not included in the Pentagon’s main budget request for 2027, which already provides for allocating $53.6 billion to the Drone Dominance initiative.

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