{"id":242440,"date":"2026-05-09T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/dvids-video-b-roll-173rd-airborne-brigade-showcases-unmanned-aerial-systems-advanced-technology-during-african-lion-26\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T13:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:15:06","slug":"dvids-video-b-roll-173rd-airborne-brigade-showcases-unmanned-aerial-systems-advanced-technology-during-african-lion-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/dvids-video-b-roll-173rd-airborne-brigade-showcases-unmanned-aerial-systems-advanced-technology-during-african-lion-26\/","title":{"rendered":"DVIDS &#8211; Video &#8211; B-Roll: 173rd Airborne Brigade showcases unmanned aerial systems, advanced technology during African Lion 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/1006044\/b-roll-173rd-airborne-brigade-showcases-unmanned-aerial-systems-advanced-technology-during-african-lion-26\">DVIDS &#8211; Video &#8211; B-Roll: 173rd Airborne Brigade showcases unmanned aerial systems, advanced technology during African Lion 26<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/1006044\/b-roll-173rd-airborne-brigade-showcases-unmanned-aerial-systems-advanced-technology-during-african-lion-26\">https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/1006044\/b-roll-173rd-airborne-brigade-showcases-unmanned-aerial-systems-advanced-technology-during-african-lion-26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-09 11:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.dvidshub.net\">www.dvidshub.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 173rd Mobile Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) showcase unmanned aerial systems and emerging technology during the African Lion 26 defense-in-depth lane at Cap Draa, Tan-Tan, Morocco, May 2, 2026. The DiD lane apart of the command field exercise tested the unit\u2019s ability to synchronize robotic platforms, smart sensors, remote obstacle systems, and counter-unmanned aerial system capabilities within a layered, echelon defense, deliberately stressing command and control to validate new multi-layered defensive techniques.<\/p>\n<p>AL26 is U.S. Africa Command\u2019s largest annual joint exercise, designed to strengthen collective security capabilities of the U.S., African nations and global allies. Led by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF) from April 20 to May 8 2026, and hosted in Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia, AL26 involves over 5,600 personnel from more than 40 nations, using innovation to drive partner-led regional security. (U.S. Army video by Sgt. C\u2019 Jay Spence)            <\/p>\n<table class=\"uk-table video_info_table asset_info_table\">\n<tr>\n<td>Date Taken:<\/td>\n<td>05.02.2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Date Posted:<\/td>\n<td>05.09.2026 11:16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Category:<\/td>\n<td>B-Roll<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Video ID:<\/td>\n<td>1006044<\/td>\n<p>              &#8230;<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/1006044\/b-roll-173rd-airborne-brigade-showcases-unmanned-aerial-systems-advanced-technology-during-african-lion-26\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DVIDS &#8211; Video &#8211; B-Roll: 173rd Airborne Brigade showcases unmanned aerial systems, advanced technology during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/d1ldvf68ux039x.cloudfront.net\/thumbs\/frames\/video\/2605\/1006044\/DOD_111688651.0000001\/1000w_q95.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[66,62,57],"class_list":["post-242440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-emerging","tag-innovation","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242442,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242440\/revisions\/242442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}