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doctrineside: natofirst seen 2025-12-01

Pentagon plans mass scaling of autonomous weapons to millions of drones

The post describes a major shift toward mass production and fielding of autonomous/robotic systems, aiming to grow inventories from thousands to millions and fund large-scale procurement plus counter-UAS and contested logistics. While not a single new battlefield gadget, it signals an emerging doctrine/force-design approach centered on ubiquitous autonomous one-way attack systems and distributed robotics at scale.

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