Marketplace Tech · Thursday, July 9, 2026
The US military is actively developing new solutions to support prolonged casualty care, including "drone plasma" with a three-year shelf life. Efforts are also focused on improving training and informing front-line commanders about the shift in battlefield medical responsibilities.
“uh, they've got drone plasma that they're hoping to field, um, that has, you know, a shelf life of, you know, kind of three years.”
“So they're concentrating on blood, training, and trying to get more word out to front line commanders about how this shift in responsibility is going to work for them and how this prolonged casualty care is going to make things a lot trickier.”