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Skydio Official: U.S. Military Supply of Small Drones ‘Woefully Inadequate’

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, September 19th, 2024

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Skydio Official: U.S. Military Supply of Small Drones ‘Woefully Inadequate’

The Pentagon's supply of small drones for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), strike, and other missions is far short of the need, an executive at Skydio, told a House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Silicon Valley field hearing this week at the University of California at Santa Cruz. "DoD's inventory of these small drones is woefully inadequate for Great Power Competition," Mark Valentine, Skydio's president of global government and a retired U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot, told the committee. "Ukraine goes…

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