The French Army Will Deploy 1,000 New Drones for Its Largest Military Exercise

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The French army is increasingly equipping itself with drones of all kinds. After ordering 2,000 suicide bomber drones in 2024, some of them for the benefit of Ukraine, the country buys 1,000 new vehicles, this time dedicated to surveillance. They will be mobilised for extensive military training in 2026.

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Noting the “essential” place taken by micro drones on the battlefield thanks to their “exceptional cost-benefit ratio” and their intrinsic “duality”, the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Pierre Schill, had estimated that training with this type of device should “be no more complicated than a shooting session”. This... This article The Army will receive 1,000 “Sonora” training drones for the Orion 26 exercise appeared first on Zone Militaire.

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The Directorate General of Armaments announced Wednesday evening that it had ordered 1,000 drones from the French fighter Harmattan AI. They will equip and strengthen the equipment of the Army of Earth.