Hegseth Wants Streamlined Army Focused on Advanced Weapons

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants the Army to shed outdated weapons and vehicles and increase its use of drones as part of a broad overhaul of the military’s largest service.

In a directive signed Wednesday and released Thursday, the Pentagon chief ordered the Army to “end procurement of obsolete systems, and cancel or scale back ineffective or redundant programs” including manned aircraft, excess ground vehicles and what it said were outdated unmanned aerial vehicles.