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The Pentagon Will Host a ‘Top Gun’ School for Ukraine-Style Attack Drones
CAMP ATTERBURY, INDIANA, JUL 17 – The Pentagon aims to secure drone superiority by expanding first-person-view drone training and proposing legislation to recognize and support combat drone pilots, with 70% of Russian losses linked to drones.
- On July 16, 2025, at the Pentagon Drone Day exhibition, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said drones are the biggest battlefield innovation in a generation, accounting for most of Ukraine’s casualties this year.
- In late 2023, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry scaled up first-person kamikaze drone production and training, with RUSI estimated that these drones caused 70 percent of Russia’s battlefield losses.
- Data show Russia’s frontline troops have received nearly 1.5 million small drones, and Ukraine now supplies its forces with 200,000 drones a month, Sam Bendett told The Guardian.
- Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced policy changes enabling military entities to purchase drones directly, saying `When it comes to drones, large, small, all classes, we need to be world class, and we will`.
- Next month, participants will converge at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, for a Top Gun school for first-person kamikaze drones, which help Ukrainians defend against Russian forces.
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The Pentagon Will Host A ‘Top Gun’ School For Ukraine-style Attack Drones - Data Intelligence
Participants from across the military will converge on Camp Atterbury in Indiana next month for a “Top Gun” school for first-person kamikaze drones—the type that right now are helping Ukrainians defend against invading Russian forces. Since 2023, the semi-annual Technology Readiness Experimentation, or T-REX event has served as a showcase for new drone prototypes and other emerging weapons technologies that are useful across the services. This …
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