Army Touting Grenade Dropping Drone Shows Just How Alarmingly Behind The Curve It Still Is
The U.S. Army asks "Have you ever seen a drone drop a GRENADE?" The answer is yes.
Joseph Trevithick
Jul 21, 2025 7:55 PM EDT
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AU.S. Army video meant to laud the service’s work on fielding small armed drones instead highlights just how much it and the rest of the U.S. military continue to lag behind global trends.
“Have you ever seen a drone drop a GRENADE?” a now-deleted post earlier today from the official U.S. Army account on X read. “Watch Soldiers from @7thATC [7th Army Training Command], the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine [JMTG-U] and @173rdAbnBde [the 173rd Airborne Brigade] execute the Army’s first live-grenade drop from an unmanned aircraft system in Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany.”
The accompanying video, which continues to circulate online, as seen below, shows Army personnel loading standard M67 fragmentation hand grenades, as well as inert M69 practice types, onto small quadcopter-type drones fitted with purpose-built mechanisms for dropping them. The system is designed to pull out the safety pin on the unmodified grenade as it is released.
https://www.twz.com/air/army-touting-grenade-dropping-drone-shows-just-how-alarmingly-behind-the-curve-it-still-is
