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Heat, dead batteries and signal loss complicate U.S. Army desert tech test
The Wall Street Journal reports soldiers flew drones for half their maximum flight time to conserve batteries, without AI assistance.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that the Army’s July Project Convergence exercise at Fort Irwin, California, encountered overheated servers, dead batteries and drones that lost signal. Soldiers limited drone flights and flew without AI assistance. An Army spokesman said the exercise was designed to let units experiment with drones; officials also described improvements in battlefield communications and mission planning.
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