The exercise marked the first time soldiers with 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment fired live rounds from the upgraded Stryker variant on European soil.
The Army is using drones during live-fire training at Grafenwoehr Training Area, showing how the small, inexpensive aircraft are reshaping ground combat.
U.S. service members partnered with Morocco's royal armed forces to enable the first-ever live-fire demonstration leveraging the Africa Multidomain Training and Experimentation Center, supporting a U.S. defense industry partner in testing long-range precision-strike capabilities as part of the Army's Test Range Expansion Initiative.
Marines successfully concluded the service's first series of live-fire first-person view attack drone flights in South Korea, demonstrating the ability to field emerging technologies in the Western Pacific rapidly.
U.S. Pacific Command joint forces, along with allied and partner forces, successfully carried out a live-fire sinking exercise during Valiant Shield 2026, targeting the decommissioned amphibious transport dock USS Juneau off the coast of Guam.