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Title III: Operation and Maintenance

Sec. 334Requirement for standardized munitions with respect to certain unmanned aircraft

TL;DR

Establishes or maintains requirement for standardized munitions with respect to certain unmanned aircraft. The Secretary of Defense shall establish standardized munitions for use in one-way attack operations by covered unmanned aircraft.(b)Covered unmanned aircraft definedIn this…

Statutory text

(a) Requirement. The Secretary of Defense shall establish standardized munitions for use in one-way attack operations by covered unmanned aircraft.

(b) Covered unmanned aircraft defined. In this section, the term covered unmanned aircraft means an unmanned aircraft (as such term is defined in section 130i(j) of title 10, United States Code), that is categorized as Group 1 or Group 2 pursuant to the Joint Publication 3—30 of the Department of Defense, titled Joint Air Operations and dated July 25, 2019, or such successor publication.