I Corps's 25th Infantry Division, out of Hawaii, is currently one of the US Army's lead experimental forces. I lost its Strykers and it is down to two brigades mounted on ISVs. It has lost its Cavalry and each MBCT consists of three infantry battalions and a Multi-Function Reconnaissance Company.
The Brigades have lost their integral artillery battalions but those battalions have been pulled back into the DivArty and reconfigured. Before they were two equal battalions with two M119 batteries of 6 and an M777 battery of 6. Now one battalion has two M119 batteries of 8 and its 6 gun battery of M777s while the other battalion, which also retains its 6 gun battery of M777s has swapped its M119 batteries for 2 batteries of HIMARS with 8 launchers to the battery.
The DivArty also has another couple of battalions under command. A signals battalion and the 125th Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Battalion.
That battalion got a work out in the recent exercises in the Phillipines.
One of its responsibilities was deploying and supervising a swarm of boat sized USVs to cover the movement of Army LSVs in the operational area.
A swarm of autonomous boats operated by U.S. Army soldiers spread across a Philippine waterway during Exercise Salaknib 2026, screening a military cargo ship and relaying real-time surveillance data to commanders ashore as American and Philippine forces conducted a combined
defence-blog.com
"The strategic geography of the Philippines makes this capability development particularly relevant to regional security planning. The country consists of more than 7,600 islands spread across a maritime area larger than the Mediterranean Sea, and any military force trying to move equipment, supplies, or personnel between those islands must accept significant exposure to maritime observation. Autonomous vessels that can extend surveillance coverage across those waters without requiring a corresponding number of manned ships or aircraft represent a direct answer to the problem of managing a vast maritime geography with limited resources."
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