When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently spoke to the Senate Armed Services Committee,

he talked about the massive amounts of money the U.S. military wants to dedicate to its drone program.

You're looking at $54 billion in the FY27 budget dedicated to drone dominance.

Dron dominance isn't just a buzzword.

It's the Defense Department initiative to scale up its drone dominance. Dron dominance isn't just a buzzword. It's the Defense Department

Initiative to scale up its drone program, and the money being requested has been called,

quote, the largest single commitment to autonomous warfare in history. In other words, drone

AI. Drones have reshaped warfare and given all kinds of countries a powerful weapon.

President Trump attended the dignified transfer of the remains of the first Americans killed in the war.

On the day after the U.S. and Israel launched war against Iran, an Iranian drone made it past air defenses

in Kuwait, striking a U.S. command center at a civilian port.

Six army reservists killed by an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.

They were the first U.S. casualties in the war.

Since then, thousands of drone strikes have been launched throughout the Middle East.

And it's catching the U.S. off guard. The Pentagon has begun a huge push to buy hundreds of

thousands of small attack drones. They were once the domain of major militaries, but they are now

spreading rapidly. They are cheap, efficient, and easy to dispatch.

Now the fastest growing sector in the Ukrainian economy.

Russia, which was already using AI to automate how its drones picked targets,

now has begun experimenting with fully autonomous systems.

Even in the war between Ukraine and Russia, drones have allowed a much smaller, less powerful

country to defend against a superior one.

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