The Pentagon is poised to redirect key antidrone technology earmarked for Ukraine to U.S. forces in the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The Pentagon notified Congress last week that special fuzes for rockets designed to down drones will be diverted to U.S. Air Force units, citing an urgent need to protect American forces in the Mideast, the Journal reported Wednesday.  

The order came from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an internal memo last month authorizing the Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell, a Pentagon office tasked with resolving shortfalls and capability gaps in ongoing U.S. operations, to provide the fuzes to the Air Force, according to the report.

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