Who Will Dominate the Future of Drone Warfare?

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The video discusses the development of drone technology by emerging competitors and the defense industry's response to military drone demands.
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Boeing and Kratos are among companies creating their own drones, with the Valkyrie drone nearing deployment but not ready for full use yet.
Other companies are also working on their own drones, like Boeing's MQ-A-Ghostbat. According to Kratos, the Valkyrie is already at a stage where it could be used, but full deployment is probably at least a year away.
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The defense industry is reacting to the Department of Defense's uncertain drone requirements by offering a diverse range of drone capabilities.
Because the Department of Defense hasn't really settled on exactly the types of drones it wants to buy yet, and in fact probably needs a family of drones, What you've seen is that industry has responded to this demand signal with this wonderfully diverse set of capabilities that really do span the whole spectrum from the very small to the much larger. Some of them are focused on intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance. Some of them can carry air-to-air missiles. A real question and the thing that industry is waiting for is where is that demand signal now to scale production of these drones? This is an urgent question because we want to shore up our force structure in short order to build up that combat credible force.

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