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  • Ukraine built a 91 percent drone interception rate β€” so Russia built a drone too fast to intercept.

    Marcus and Sam break down the counter-move reshaping the drone war: Russia has launched roughly 1,400 jet-powered Geran attack drones since January β€” eight times all of 2025 β€” with the newest variants hitting 500 km/h, beyond the reach of interceptor drones limited to about 300 km/h. Then: the U.S. Army awards AeroVironment a $500 million contract for layered counter-UAS defenses spanning jamming, directed energy, and kinetic interceptors; new trade data shows China shipping 328,000 miles of fiber-optic drone cable to Russia in a single month while Ukraine received 72; Ukraine's Sea Baby naval drones are now launching fiber-guided FPV strike drones from side compartments in the Black Sea; and Britain commits over Β£5 billion to the largest drone transformation in UK history. Plus updates on Northrop Grumman's YFQ-48A Talon and the next wave of Collaborative Combat Aircraft, and what to watch at the NATO summit in Ankara.

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  • The U.S. Air Force has crossed a line β€” AI-piloted combat aircraft are now a production program, not an experiment.

    This episode breaks down the Air Force's production contracts awarded to Anduril (FQ-44 Fury) and General Atomics (FQ-42A Dark Merlin) for over 150 Collaborative Combat Aircraft loyal wingmen, delivered four months ahead of schedule. We examine the ongoing autonomy software competition between Anduril, Shield AI, and Collins Aerospace β€” and why that contest may be more consequential than the airframe decision. Then we turn to Ukraine, where a sustained drone campaign against Russian oil refineries has forced Putin to publicly admit nationwide fuel shortages and taken Moscow's primary refinery offline until 2027. We unpack the strategic logic of economic coercion at scale, and what it means that a non-state actor can deliver it with cheap autonomous systems. We also cover the Marine Corps' landmark $19.7M contract with Overland AI β€” the first U.S. military production contract ever awarded to a ground autonomy company β€” and TRANSCOM's push toward autonomous cargo vessels for contested Pacific logistics. Plus: Ukraine holds a 91.73% Shahed interception rate against 8,161 Russian drone launches in May, powered by the Brave1 autonomous interceptor marketplace. And what fiber-optic drone saturation means for the future of electronic warfare.

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  • The drone war just flipped: this week the fight is no longer about how far a cheap drone can strike β€” it's about how to kill one without going broke.

    We break down the counter-UAS wave that swept Eurosatory 2026 in Paris, all of it converging on a single number: cost-per-kill. Thales unveiled RapidStriker, a Bushmaster-mounted system built around low-cost 68/70mm rockets, the proximity-fuzed LGR275 Proxy, and the Eclipse EW jammer. Esh-Tech showed DroneLight, a 4 kW pulsed-laser hard-kill; Rohde & Schwarz fused RF, radar and EO/IR into THORIS; Electro Optic Systems' Interceptor MR targets Shahed-class drones beyond 5 km. Then to the Kharkiv region, where Ukraine's Brave1 cluster β€” via MaXon Systems β€” is scaling interceptor drones that automate 95% of the Shahed kill cycle while keeping a human-in-the-loop abort. We cover AM General's armed UGV with a Moog 30mm turret and Stinger/Coyote effectors, and DARPA's containerized 500-drone swarm RFI set against China's ATLAS/Swarm-2. Throughout, one fault line: where the human stays in the loop.

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  • Ukraine just extended the drone war to a range that changes everything β€” 1,500 kilometres.

    This episode covers Ukraine's coordinated June 24 strike package that hit Russia's only helium production facility in Orenburg (a raw material for rocket engines and guidance systems), the Dubna Space Communications Center near Moscow, a second satellite comms hub in the Vladimir region, and energy infrastructure in Crimea that knocked out power to Sevastopol β€” all in a single operational window. We break down what these targets actually mean for Russia's guided munitions supply chain and why 1,500km is a strategic threshold. Then we move to the Air Force's landmark CCA production awards to Anduril (FQ-44 Fury) and General Atomics (FQ-42A Dark Merlin) β€” the first 150 autonomous drone wingmen for U.S. crewed fighters β€” and the three-way autonomy software competition between Anduril, Shield AI, and Collins Aerospace. Finally, we unpack Trump's $87.6 billion defence supplemental, including $5.1 billion for autonomy and cybersecurity and $2.4 billion for drones, and what the combined DAWG investment signals about the pace of U.S. autonomous warfare development. Hosted by AI. Researched and written entirely by AI using open-source intelligence. Mistakes are possible β€” always verify with primary sources.

  • The Pentagon's autonomous weapons program just crossed a threshold β€” not in a policy document, but in operational approvals.

    This episode covers five major developments from the past 72 hours. JIATF-401 validated CACI's SkyValor as the first long-range autonomous counter-drone system approved for joint force use across the entire U.S. military β€” with "automated sense and shoot algorithms" now in an official DoD release. At the Army's Operation Jailbreak at Fort Carson, six companies β€” AZAK, HavocAI, Leonardo DRS, Allen Control Systems, Picogrid, and Anduril β€” assembled a two-vehicle autonomous hunter-killer UGV counter-drone team in 48 hours, demonstrated it to the Army Secretary, and immediately signed an MOU to scale production to thousands of units. The Army issued a new RFI for an autonomous ground vehicle capable of recovering disabled vehicles in DDIL-contested zones without human control. The Army also moved to deploy agentic AI platforms on JWICS and SIPRNet at Impact Level 6, the next layer beyond its classified network agreements with OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, and five other firms. And a critical supply chain story: fiber optic spool prices have surged 8x as AI data center buildouts compete for the same material as Ukraine's jam-proof FPV drone program.

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  • Ukraine's autonomous drone campaign reached a new strategic threshold this week β€” 194 drones on Moscow, the Kapotnya Oil Refinery halted, and a coordinated assault that disrupted 700,000 barrels per day of Russian refining capacity since January.

    Marcus and Sam break down the strategic logic behind Ukraine's systematic targeting of Russian energy infrastructure, how AI-guided drones like the Saker Scout now prosecute targets autonomously after electronic warfare severs their link, and why Russia's 81% intercept rate still isn't enough. They cover the Pentagon's extraordinary $54.6 billion FY2027 request for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG) β€” a near 24,000% single-year increase β€” and what the bet on autonomous orchestration software signals about where U.S. defense procurement is heading. Airbus's U145 cockpit-free autonomous helicopter, unveiled at ILA Berlin with an MBDA drone-mothership partnership, gets the hardware spotlight. Then: the NATO allied counter-drone marketplace agreement signed at Eurosatory, EuroTrophy's new APS variant with integrated drone-kill capability, and the Turkish Katica UGV now carrying a short-range air defense system to the front line. The episode closes on the policy fault line β€” 74 days to the DoDD 3000.09 autonomous-weapons rewrite deadline, and what Senator Gallego's warning letter signals about the coming policy fight over human judgment in the kill chain.

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  • The drone war just stopped being about who flies faster and started being about who can afford to keep shooting. In Eurosatory's closing days, Thales unveiled the LGR275 Proxy β€” a 70mm laser-guided counter-drone rocket headed for 20,000 units a year β€” while GDELS stacked a Cilas HELMA-P high-energy laser onto the Pandur air-defense vehicle. Marcus and Sam break down the interception-cost crisis, then turn to Ondas' "Autonomy at First Contact" launch and its LADOS orchestration brain β€” the software that proves the network, not the airframe, is the real weapon. We cover Rostec/Shvabe's neural-net maritime drone interceptor at Fleet 2026 in Kronstadt, France's Furious autonomous ground robot and the European UGV wave, and the policy fight that ties it all together: NSPM-11's 90-day rewrite of DoD Directive 3000.09, Senator Gallego's warning over human judgment, and the $14.6 billion flooding into autonomous weapons before the rules are written. The battle this week wasn't on the floor in Paris β€” it was between the spreadsheet and the rulebook.

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  • The airframes get the headlines β€” but the war is being decided in the spectrum, eighteen minutes at a time.

    In this episode, Marcus and Sam unpack the middle days of Eurosatory 2026, where Ukraine stopped being a weapons buyer and became a weapons exporter: Ukroboronprom's turbojet-powered UAV-290 strike drone (~800 km/h), Global Mark's ten-ton Sea Trident autonomous underwater hunter-killer, and OM Defense Systems' rifle-armed Drone Squad Fury. We trace the fiber-optic versus electronic warfare arms race playing out on the same show floor β€” Orqa's MRM2-10AI with hybrid radio/fiber failover against new PeriSight and Ondas MODUS systems that can detect "unjammable" wired drones. Plus: the Pentagon clears CACI's autonomous SkyValor counter-UAS for military-wide use after Yuma testing and pushes it to the border; Russia's layered SIGINT-jam-kinetic defense severs an 800-drone Ukrainian swarm in eighteen minutes near Kharkiv; and the Senate Armed Services Committee advances a $1.14 trillion NDAA that would permit a new four-star Robotic and Autonomous Systems Combatant Command.

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  • The land battlefield just hit the assembly line. As Eurosatory 2026 opens in Paris, Marcus and Sam trace a single thread running through every story this week: industrialization.

    Renault and Belgium's John Cockerill unveil a car-sized robotic scout built to be mass-produced on an automotive line, while Humvee-maker AM General takes the armed UGV we covered last episode onto the international export floor β€” alongside live demos from ST Engineering and a Spanish EM&E counter-drone vehicle. In Ukraine, a new anti-Shahed AI module lets interceptor drones lock on and kill autonomously, MaXon Systems automates 95% of the intercept, and production runs past 2,000 interceptors a day β€” possibly flipping the cost curve in the defender's favor for the first time. On Capitol Hill, Senator Gillibrand's Secure and Accountable Military AI Act moves to bar AI from nuclear launch decisions and mandate "meaningful human oversight," colliding with the Red Dragon strike drone's near-autonomous targeting. Plus: the Thunderforge generative-AI system writing combatant-command war plans at EUCOM and INDOPACOM, and SOCOM's hunt for a synthetic-data factory to train the eyes of every autonomous system.

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  • Washington just decided autonomy needs its own war command. This episode opens with the U.S. Senate's move to create a Robotic and Autonomous Systems Combatant Command β€” the first new combatant command since Space Command in 2019, armed with rare acquisition authority and modeled on Ukraine's and Russia's Unmanned Systems Forces.

    We trace the through-line from the battlefield to the bureaucracy: Ukraine's NC13 Strike UGV Company capturing an enemy position with ground and air robots alone β€” a Droid TW 12.7 with a .50-cal, no infantry, no casualties; AM General's combat-ready unmanned ground vehicle carrying a Moog RIwP turret with a 30mm cannon plus Stinger, Coyote, APKWS, Hellfire and Javelin effectors; the Pentagon's service-wide approval of CACI's SkyValor counter-drone system after border testing; and SOCOM's push to mount autonomous ELINT payloads on uncrewed maritime drones. Watchlist: TΓΌrkiye's supersonic Δ°HA-230 drone-launched ballistic missile, Germany's €540M Helsing/Stark loitering-munition buy, Ukraine's laptop-run distributed deep-strike C2, and the Cornyn counter-UAS standards bill.

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  • The cost-exchange war just crossed its last line: the limiting factor in drone air defense is no longer money β€” it's the human pilot, and Ukraine just removed him.

    This episode leads with MaXon Systems' combat debut of the first fully autonomous Shahed interceptor β€” a $3,500 fixed-wing drone, flown through Ukraine's Brave1 cluster, that automates roughly 95% of the kill cycle across launch, transit, and terminal homing, with first intercepts logged by the 12th Separate Special Purpose Center in Kharkiv Oblast and announced by Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. Marcus and Sam break down the two-button workflow, the GPS-independent beacon navigation, the foreign terminal-guidance dependency, and the speed gap against Russia's jet-powered Geran-3 and Geran-4 Shaheds. Then: the U.S. Navy's Saronic Corsair drone boat pulling two downed AH-64 Apache crew from the Strait of Hormuz β€” the first uncrewed-vessel rescue the military has ever run, by Task Force 59. Plus the Pentagon's Drone Dominance "Gauntlet" attack drones begin arriving (Neros Archer leading), Airbus deletes the cockpit from its H145 to unveil the U145, and a Lockheed Martin UK-led consortium pitches NATO's Modular GBAD network. Watchlist: SAFER SKIES counter-drone rules, jet Shaheds, Echodyne's $490M radar deal, and Stark's Cascade and Gambit.

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  • The machines are taking the missions β€” and Washington is finally fighting over which decisions they can never take with them.

    This episode covers Senator Gillibrand's Secure and Accountable Military AI Act, the first comprehensive bill to regulate Pentagon AI: a general prohibition on fully autonomous lethal weapons, mandatory human override, a domestic mass-surveillance ban, and 15-day Congressional notification for "high consequence" AI operations. At the same time, the House Armed Services Committee's FY27 NDAA orders the Navy to accelerate small unmanned surface vessels and XLUUVs β€” and certify drone boats can fight with comms jammed and GPS denied. Plus: TΓΌrkiye inducts the Roketsan Δ°HA-230, a supersonic ballistic missile giving Bayraktar AkΔ±ncΔ± drones 150 km standoff strike; Ukraine's Fire Point test-flies the FP-7.X, foundation for FREYJA, a sub-$1M composite ballistic missile interceptor targeted for 2027; and General Atomics and Saab fly the world's first unmanned AWACS β€” an MQ-9B with LoyalEye radar pods. On the watchlist: the SAFER SKIES counter-drone rulemaking deadline, DARPA's containerized autonomous swarm hubs, and SOCOM's hybrid-electric amphibious seaplane.

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  • The drone technology that reshaped Ukraine's battlefield has escaped the battlefield β€” and it's killing soldiers Israel's jammers can't protect.

    This episode covers Hezbollah's operational use of fiber-optic FPV drones in southern Lebanon, immune to electronic warfare and responsible for at least 10 Israeli soldiers killed since April; the Pentagon's counter-drone buying spree, including Echodyne's $490 million Air Force radar program, the Perennial Autonomy interceptor stack, and AeroVironment's $117.3 million P550 reconnaissance contract pushing battalion-level ISR; Golden Dome's twin milestones β€” Northrop Grumman's space-based interceptor demonstration targeting 2027 and Lockheed Martin's Next-Generation Interceptor entering production β€” in the shadow of Russia's uninterceptable Zircon salvo; Ukraine's contracting of 25,000 unmanned ground vehicles to move all frontline logistics onto robots, Palantir's expanded Brave1 partnership after Alex Karp's Kyiv visit, and a draft US-Ukraine agreement that would let Kyiv export drone technology to America; plus the R7 β€” a Chinese AI-guided drone interceptor listed on eBay for $6,999 despite an FCC ban β€” and the SAFER SKIES Act regulatory deadline landing mid-June.

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  • Russia crossed a threshold overnight: eight Zircon hypersonic missiles were fired in a single strike, and not one was intercepted. That number β€” eight launched, zero stopped β€” defines this episode.

    Marcus and Sam break down Russia's June 2 saturation strike: 656 Shahed drones exhausting Ukraine's interceptor inventory, then eight Mach 8 Zircon missiles through the degraded defense layer. Then: the Pentagon's staggering FY27 budget request for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group β€” $54.6 billion, up from $225.9 million, a 24,167% year-over-year increase. Eight major AI firms β€” Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX, NVIDIA, Reflection, and Oracle β€” cleared for classified military networks at Impact Level 6 and 7, while Anthropic remains excluded after its contract termination. Overland AI's ULTRA autonomous ground vehicles execute live combined-arms breach training at African Lion 2026 in Morocco alongside the 173rd Airborne Brigade. And Ukraine's Sting interceptor drone hits 7,000 Shahed kills while a new USV-launched Sting completes the war's first ship-drone-drone kill chain, as Zelenskyy opens controlled drone exports to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE under the new Drone Deals framework.

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  • One year after Operation Spiderweb proved no Russian airbase is safe from a cargo truck, the doctrinal aftershocks are still landing.

    This episode marks the anniversary of Ukraine's June 1, 2025 strike on five Russian strategic airbases β€” 117 FPV drones smuggled inside cargo trucks by recruited Russian drivers, hitting Tu-160, Tu-95, and Tu-22M strategic bombers at bases up to 1,700 km from Ukraine, destroying an estimated 34% of Russia's cruise missile-carrying bomber fleet in a single night. One year on, we assess what changed and what didn't. We then cover Ukraine's Sky Map counter-drone AI β€” now deployed to Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, with Ukrainian officers training U.S. soldiers after $1.3 billion in losses during Operation Epic Fury β€” and the broader Ukraine-to-West technology transfer now operating in reverse. We cover Northrop Grumman's YFQ-48A Talon Blue autonomous wingman entering flight testing as the third CCA contender, putting the Air Force's down-select decision within reach. We examine Mistral AI's partnership with Airbus and what a sovereign European AI-weapons supply chain means for NATO interoperability. And we close with DARPA's containerized autonomous drone hub concept β€” the direct architectural response to the lesson Spiderweb proved: fixed bases are targets.

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  • The age of the human pilot is ending β€” and this week the Pentagon signed the contract to prove it.

    Shield AI was selected to integrate its Hivemind AI software into the LUCAS one-way attack drone program, placing an autonomous agent in command of swarms of kamikaze drones for the first time in US military history. One human sets the objective; Hivemind handles the rest. We break down what that means β€” technically, doctrinally, and legally β€” against the backdrop of a Senate hearing where officials admitted that human-in-the-loop oversight becomes mathematically impossible when you're orchestrating thousands of systems simultaneously.

    This episode also covers the Pentagon's staggering $54.6 billion DAWG budget request for FY2027, and why that number matters more than its size suggests; the $500 million Perennial Autonomy contract that turns Ukraine's battlefield counter-drone math into official US doctrine β€” the Merops interceptor has downed 4,300 Russian drones at $15k per kill; a Ukrainian ground robot that held a front-line position under constant Russian assault for 45 consecutive days with zero Ukrainian casualties; and Project Flytrap 5.0, the NATO exercise that just concluded testing 50+ counter-UAS technologies including a new offensive doctrine aimed at the drone operator, not just the drone.

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  • The autonomous kill chain is no longer theoretical β€” it happened yesterday. Ukraine's GOGOL-M AI drone mothership has completed its first confirmed real-world combat strikes against Russian positions, with a visual-inertial navigation AI making the terminal kill decision at 300 kilometres for $10,000 per mission. That threshold β€” quietly crossed by a Ukrainian startup β€” is the centrepiece of this episode.

    We cover the GOGOL-M's confirmed combat debut and what $10K autonomous strikes mean for the cost-of-war calculus; Ukraine's new balloon-launch TTP that carries the Hornet strike drone to 8,000 metres and doubles its range without GPS or radio emissions; Russia's Geran-5 jet-powered strike drone making its combat operational debut, with the unresolved air-to-air missile threat assessment still open; DARPA's Containerised Autonomous Drone Delivery System β€” a programme to enable 500-drone swarms from hidden shipping containers in GPS-denied environments; and NATO's Silent Swarm 2026 live-fire exercise in Estonia, convened because 10 Ukrainian drone operators defeated two NATO battalions in six hours during a February wargame.

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  • Russia's largest aerial assault of 2026 β€” and a new Ukrainian doctrine that targets drone operators before they reach the front.

    On May 24, Russia launched 600 drones and 90 missiles at Ukraine in its most saturating attack of the year, including a third confirmed combat deployment of the Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile striking Bila Tserkva, 50 miles from Kyiv. The same week, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces struck a Russian drone cadet training facility in Snizhne, Donetsk Oblast β€” killing 65 Akhmat Sever cadets and their commander, a credentialed PhD instructor from the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences. Marcus and Sam break down what the Oreshnik's operational cadence signals about Russian strategic intent, and why Ukraine's shift to targeting the human operator pipeline may be more disruptive than shooting down hardware at the front. In Washington, the Pentagon's FY2027 AI Arsenal initiative requests $29.5 billion for classified AI supercomputing infrastructure β€” stacked on top of the $54.6 billion DAWG autonomous warfare programme, bringing the combined AI and autonomy ask above $80 billion. The episode also covers the Anduril and Booz Allen integration that puts cyber effects and kinetic C2 on a single operator interface for SOF teams, and Russia's unverified but credible claim of a 65-kilometre fiber-optic FPV drone β€” a development that could neutralise Ukraine's electronic warfare advantage in the FPV fight.

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  • Autonomous weapons are outrunning every rule written to govern them β€” and this week, both sides of the Ukraine conflict unveiled systems that prove it.

    Russia publicly revealed the Geran-5 jet-powered strike drone at the Victory Day parade in Moscow. Unlike its slow Shahed-derived predecessor, the Geran-5 is faster, harder to intercept, and β€” according to Ukraine's HUR intelligence directorate β€” may be capable of carrying R-73 infrared-guided air-to-air missiles, turning a strike platform into an active counter-air threat. Ukraine's answer: the Sichen, a domestically produced 1,400km strike drone with a 40kg warhead, engineered to defeat Russian GPS jamming and electronic warfare β€” no Western partner approval required. We cover what both revelations mean for air defence doctrine in contested airspace.

    In Washington, the Pentagon cleared eight AI firms β€” AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX, NVIDIA, Reflection, and Oracle β€” to deploy their systems on its most classified warfighting networks, explicitly excluding Anthropic after its refusal to support autonomous weapons targeting. The day after, the US Senate warned that DoD Directive 3000.09 cannot keep pace with the autonomous systems already being fielded. We break down what the AI vendor shake-up means for the US kill chain, the Army's $994M counter-drone procurement plan, Perennial Autonomy's $500M contract, Poland joining the Pentagon counter-drone marketplace, and Ukraine's commitment to 25,000 ground robotic systems by mid-2026.

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  • The week autonomous warfare stopped being theoretical. Ukraine has confirmed combat deployment of the GOGOL-M β€” an AI-powered drone mothership that carries FPV strike drones 300 kilometres and releases them to autonomously acquire and engage targets without a human in the terminal loop. A $10,000 mission replacing a $5 million missile strike. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has proposed the most radical defense budget shift in decades: $54.6 billion for the Defense Autonomous Working Group in FY2027, up from $226 million β€” a 24,000% increase in a single cycle.

    This episode covers the GOGOL-M's SmartPilot GPS-denied autonomous guidance system and what it means for strike campaign economics and AI governance; a single Ukrainian Droid TW 12.7 UGV that held a contested intersection under constant Russian attack for 45 days, operated by one soldier 10 kilometres away; the Army's new CPE Mission Autonomy office and its "packages of capability" doctrine that translates commander intent into autonomous mission execution; L3Harris's Wraith Shield software update that turns 100,000 existing Falcon IV soldier radios into networked counter-drone jammers; and the transformation of Virginia's 116th National Guard Brigade into the Army's first drone-EW-cyber Mobile Brigade Combat Team.

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