Pentagon Presses Industry To Prep For Counter-UAS Production Boost

reusable Roadrunner UAS

Startup Anduril Industries says its Roadrunner is a reusable, fast UAS for air defense.

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When the U.S. military saw the staggering use rate of artillery shells in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and reviewed its defense industrial base’s production capacity, it discovered a crisis that needed to be addressed quickly. The result was a dramatic surge in funding and capacity to produce 100,000...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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