The Pentagon is bargain shopping for Group 1 drones, as other countries, including Ukraine and China, have taken advantage of consumer electronics-level prices to bolster their stables. "In last spring's posture hearings, our four star commanders acknowledged that they didn't have enough, as a proportion, of their spend on unmanned systems," Owen West, DoD's senior advisor for drone dominance, told a Thursday Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the small drone industrial base. "The basic problem they identified was price,"…
