Pentagon Will Spend $1B on First Round of Replicator Drones

March 12, 2024

USNI News

The Defense Department’s early effort to build a fleet of small, unmanned craft designed to stymie a Chinese invasion of Taiwan will cost about $1 billion, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said on Monday.
Announced last year, the Pentagon’s Replicator initiative is an effort to quickly field swarms of unmanned systems to solve military problems faced by U.S. combatant commanders.

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