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Next Generation Air Dominance
Modern Flying‘Small, Smart, Cheap, and Many’: DOD to Build Up Thousands of Autonomous Systems
The department revealed the U.S. plan to produce ‘multiple thousands’ of cheap, attritable drones and other systems to counter China.
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