After Israel, Ukraine drone warfare, Pentagon recognizes US vulnerability

Cheaper, one-way commercially available drones with small explosives represent a new threat, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a hearing on Capitol Hill last month. The Times defense industry officials who said the Pentagon must change existing perceptions and adopt new strategies to respond to the threat. Companies have been developing new technologies that they hope would be included in the Pentagon's investments of billions of dollars in missile defense as part of the Golden Dome project announced by U.S. President Donald Trump lst May.