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Pentagon has sent more than 25,000 drone and counter-drone systems to CENTCOM this year

The Pentagon’s unmanned systems portfolio office, DRPM-UxS, says it delivered more than 25,000 drone and counter-drone systems to U.S. Central Command this year for about $782 million. The total includes more than 1,300 one-way attack drones, over 100 uncrewed surface and underwater vessels, and more than 24,000 counter-drone systems fielded through Joint Interagency Task Force 401. The office was set up in July to speed buying of low-cost autonomous systems.

Illustration of a desert seaside base with fixed-wing drones on launch rails, a radar truck and an uncrewed boat at a pier

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