A U.S. Marine Corps mortarman with Kilo Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, flies a SkyDio X10 small unmanned aircraft system during attack drone training on Camp Santiago, Puerto Rico, Nov. 22, 2025. (U.S. Marine Corps photo).
The exercise in the Caribbean marked the first time that forward-deployed Marines were certified on the use of first-person-view drones, officials said, an important milestone for the…
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Riley Coggins, 482nd Attack Squadron MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft sensor operator, practices in an MQ-9 Reaper simulator at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, Feb. 10, 2025. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Victoria Nuzzi)
The study would assess the prevalence of post traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, burnout, moral injury and other mental health conditions among drone operators and analysts.
U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Shay Burnett, an instructor with Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry – East, and a native of Texas, controls a Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system during a kinetic first-person view drone range on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Sept. 12, 2025. The range was conducted to validate a scalable, repeatable methodology for enabling FPV strike operations and used as a reference to support cost-effective training and eventual kinetic employment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Zachariah Ferraro)
“As we go forward, we’re watching closely in our experimentation to develop a full requirement [and] potentially deliver a capability over the next couple of years," said…
U.S. Soldiers assigned to Hound Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, conduct a demonstration for the local media with the Skydio X2D Drone during exercise Combined Resolve (CbR) 25-1 at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels Training Area, Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 3, 2025. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Thomas Dixon)
The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and the Threat Systems Management Office push a swarm of 40 drones through the town during the battle of Razish, National Training Center on May 8th, 2019. (U.S. Army Photo by Pv2 James Newsome)
Sgt. Lucero Martinez, an unmanned aircraft systems operator, assigned to Detachment 1, Delta Company, 545th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, helps launch an unmanned aircraft system during a UAS exercise on June 12, 2025 at Camp Gruber Training Center, Oklahoma. (Oklahoma National Guard photo by Spc. Cambrie Cannon)
The marketplace is intended to be a trusted repository for service members to reliably see what systems are available and can suit their mission needs.
