As drones move toward the center of modern combat, U.S. Army units are scrambling to invent ways to give soldiers the training they need.

That includes exploring virtual and small-scale, home-station training environments to get more practice in between larger training exercises, leaders told reporters Friday after Exercise Arcane Thunder in Europe.

“I mean, the Army’s spent 250 years perfecting places where we can shoot tanks and shoot helicopters and rifles and all those things,” said Maj. Gen. John Rafferty, who commands the 56th Artillery Command in Wiesbaden, Germany. “And so we have to really work hard to find the places where we can train, to bring all these multi-domain capabilities together.”

Within Rafferty’s command sits the 2nd Multi-Domain Task Force, one of soon-to-be

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