No. 1 threat: Drone attacks prompt urgent $500 million request from Pentagon

Published on April 28, 2024



WASHINGTON — Drone attacks have become the No. 1 threat to U.S. troops deployed abroad, prompting a $500 million urgent request to help erect defenses.

Cheap, easy to use, and hard to defend against, drones toting explosives pose risks to troops akin to the IEDs that killed and wounded thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to senior military and U.S. officials and experts. It was a one-way attack drone launched by Iranian-backed militants that killed three U.S. soldiers in January after slipping past defenses at their base in Jordan.

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