The U.S. is pushing allies and partners to use more drones in their militaries and operations, the Pentagon’s top Asia-Pacific official said, Defense One reports.
“Whether it’s with partners in South China Sea, with India, with other high-end partners, we have been talking with them about opportunities we see for them to integrate some of these low-cost unmanned systems into their militaries, particularly for maritime domain awareness and to help them police their electoral areas,” Ely Ratner, assistant defense secretary for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, told the Defense Writers Group on Tuesday. “It’s a huge benefit for these allies, partners to have greater awareness around what’s happening in their area. And these kinds of unmanned systems are critical to that, including sub-surface.”
