On Tuesday, the Pentagon released an open call to industry to rapidly obtain and deploy over 300,000 small one-way-attack drones — with the Pentagon hoping to put them into the field at such a pace that operators can learn to use them within two hours.

The $1 billion initiative aims to have the one-way attack drones in the hands of service members by 2028.

The RFI document calls for small drones capable of carrying a minimum of 4.4lbs in explosives and able to conduct strikes across both open terrain and urban environments. The drones are expected to prove they can maneuver across roughly six miles of open land and conduct a strike across over half a mile within a city environment.

“We cannot afford to shoot down cheap drones with 2 million dollar missiles and we ourselves must be abl

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