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First-Person View of Drone Live-Fire Exercise at Northern Strike 26-2

U.S. Army Soldiers Staff Sgt. Richard Serrels, an unmanned aircraft system trainer with the 837th Brigade Engineer Battalion, and Spc. Aleksandr Blain, a drone pilot assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 126th Infantry Regiment, demonstrate a live-fire exercise with a first-person view of the Neros drone during Northern Strike 26-2 at Camp Grayling, Mich., on Aug. 10, 2026.

Northern Strike is an Army-sponsored, multi-component, multinational exercise designed to build readiness and enhance interoperability with allied forces to fight and win. Northern Strike 26-2, Michigan’s largest and longest exercise designed to validate the readiness of the joint reserve force, is held Aug. 1 to 15, 2026, at the National All-Domain Warfighting Center. This year’s exercise will feature around 9,000 participants.



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