Hegseth orders Pentagon to fast-track drones to outpace Russia, China

First on the foxDefense Minister Beit Higseth issued new orders to produce and deploy drones quickly, allowing leaders to buy and test them independently and requires drone combat simulation through each branch of the army.

As part of an aggressive batch to overcome Russia and China in the uninhabited war, “the bureaucratic gloves in the ministry start.” “The killing of self -imposed restrictions will not be obstructed … Our main risks are to avoid risks.”

In a pair of notes obtained by Fox News Digital for the first time, HegSeth has canceled old policies that are believed to be restricted innovation. For the first time, the leaders with the rank of colonel or the captain can independently buy and test drones independently, including 3D printed preliminary models and commercial shelf systems, as long as they meet national security standards.

They can also operate and train drones immediately, bypassing traditional approval bottlenecks, and even accredited to an unequal UAS test in controlled environments.

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One of the instructions stated: “Small UAS is more like munitions than high -end aircraft.” “It should be cheap, quickly replaced, and classified as consuming.”

The notes redefine small drones (Group 1 and 2) as consumer materials – not strong military assets – removes them from old tracking systems and simplifying the acquisition.

Higseth said so far, that the Ministry of Defense “failed to provide UAS [unmanned aircraft system] Wide and speed. ”

“The small UAS is the factors of enabling critical power so that priority should be given at the same level as the main weapons systems.”

Leaders are directed to work with FAA “to remove inappropriate range restrictions, a quick path and expand the approval of the spectrum, and to create a variety of UAS training areas that include live fire, shared weapons, and a swarm test.”

“The bureaucratic gloves in the administration are released,” he wrote in the notes. (Getty Images)

The range of training ranges will be expanded, with three new test sites assigned to UAS within 90 days.

Weapons, which are a long attached point, will also move faster: arms plates must now respond to requests for drone armament within 30 days, and battery certificates should be processed within a week.

While America’s opponents have the “beginning of the head” in the small UAS world, Higseth expects the United States to create the domination of the field by the end of 2027.

“In the next year, I expect to see this integrated capacity in all relevant combat training, including force drone wars,” said Hegseth, adding that investment methods shown in Trump are being investigated to unleash the domination of an American drone.

The Pentagon will now build a “dynamic blue and search list for Amnesty International”, which are the components of an approved drone from the digital platform, sellers and performance classifications. By 2026, this system will be operated by the DCMA management agency (DCMA) and is fed up with data from the Night AI Re -Training Pipelines.

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Companies link Nathan Babetst, the left, and Yaqoub Bennett, a camera with drones while training the tactical scenario on the capabilities of offensive and defensive aircraft in the Bandalton camp on Friday, June 6, 2025. (JEFF GRITHEN/MediaNews Group/Orange County Record via Getty Images)

To start the drone industry, the Pentagon will follow up on prior purchasing obligations, direct loans and other capital incentives within 30 days. “American companies prefer,” said one note of the main purchases.

The move comes at a time when the deadly capabilities of the modern drone war were proven on the ground in Ukraine And in the Middle East.

Since Russia has launched a large -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, drones redefined modern war. The Ukrainian and Russian forces used UAS to reshape tactics in the battlefield and collect intelligence in the actual time. What started as a basic monitoring and targeting of artillery has rapidly evolved into fatal deployments of the so-called “Kamikze Drones”-accumulating ammunition designed to hover before the chest in targets deeply behind enemy lines.

Among these things is the most abundant and controversial excitement in a martyr in 136, which is a low -cost drone, which was equipped with Russian forces. Large formations were shot, and they had an effective role in attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure and residential areas, and often exceeding expensive missile systems in a small part of the cost. In response, Ukraine has amended drones to connect useful loads of explosives against Russian trenches, vehicles and marine targets in the Black Sea.

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Earlier this month, Israel relied heavily on drones during the RISing Lion operation, and coordinated it with inhabited air missions to target high -level Iranian military officials and nuclear infrastructure. Iran took revenge on its drones.

The rapid adoption of drones sparked significant transformations in the doctrine, which raised the development of electronic measures and igniting the debate about whether the drones are preparing to bypass the aircraft inhabited as a dominant force in the future air fighting.