Virginia Guard’s 116th MBCT First National Guard Brigade Equipped With Drones, EW Systems

The Virginia Army National Guard’s 116th Mobile Brigade Combat Team has become the first National Guard brigade to complete the Army’s transition to a Mobile Brigade Combat Team equipped with new unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), electronic warfare capabilities, and modern command-and-control technologies, brigade leaders said Friday. The 18-month modernization effort transformed the former Infantry Brigade Combat Team into one of the Army’s first Mobile Brigade Combat Teams under the service’s T