Pentagon: Pentagon aims to counter China numerical advantage with drones

WSHINGTON: The Pentagon plans to area 1000’s of drones throughout the subsequent two years to assist counter China‘s numerical edge in personnel and navy {hardware}, a senior US protection official stated Monday.
Beijing’s most important benefit is “mass: Extra ships. Extra missiles. Extra individuals,” Deputy Secretary of Protection Kathleen Hicks stated at a navy know-how convention in Washington.
“We’ll counter the PLA’s mass with mass of our personal, however ours can be more durable to plan for, more durable to hit, more durable to beat,” she stated, referring to the Chinese language navy.
The aim is “to area attritable autonomous methods at scale of a number of 1000’s, in a number of domains, throughout the subsequent 18 to 24 months,” Hicks stated.
The USA says China is its consequential problem and is searching for to discourage battle with Beijing, particularly over the democratic self-ruled island of Taiwan.
China claims Taiwan as its personal and has lengthy vowed to take the territory someday, by power if essential.