"Silicon Valley of warfare": Pentagon Chief states personnel were sent to Ukraine to study drone warfare experience
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Pete Hegseth approved sending personnel to Ukraine to study drone warfare experience. These lessons are being integrated into the U.S. budget to strengthen combat forces.
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth stated during a Senate committee hearing that personnel were sent to Ukraine to learn how to use drones based on battlefield experience, UNN reports.
We've had many senior officials travel there and we learn a great deal. In fact, I've personally approved additional personnel there to learn from that drone battlefield, both on offense and defense to ensure that we're learning every possible lesson from that conflict and incorporating it in real time into how we defend and we go on offense in an era where drone dominance is required. And that's why this budget spends so much on drone dominance. take the lessons learned from Ukraine and other battlefields and ensure we're applying them throughout the fighting force as quickly as possible.
At the same time, McConnell referred to the words of U.S. Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll, who, according to him, "called Ukraine the Silicon Valley of warfare." "I think we all agree on that and the outcome of the war really matters to American interests," the senator noted.