Enter Sandman” played as Trump’s Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo about using more drones. The new version contains no music

During the video, a drone flies towards Mr Hegseth with a memo attached to it, which the defense secretary grabs before appearing to sign the document, which is entitled “Unleashing U.S. Military Drone Dominance”. “This is the future,” he declared. “We’re in the fight. We’re in the fight to win it. And we’re never gonna back down.”

Hegseth’s new hype video promoting a new era of U.S. “drone dominance” and soundtracked by Metallica crash landed to ridicule.

An announcement so weird it could only come from the Trump administration video Flanked by a pair of buzzing drones that threatened to drown out his voice, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reached up to grab a memorandum hung from a third drone hovering above his head.

Donald Trump outright called his Pentagon chief the “Secretary of War” Friday while also seemingly believing Pete Hegseth actually appeared on Fox News to talk “about modern weapons and warfare” after the network aired a clip of the defense secretary’s announcement on the administration’s new drone strategy.

People are a little concerned after Donald Trump described America's secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, as the 'secretary of war'. The US president, 79, praised the former TV presenter, 45, who unveiled the administration's new drone strategy on Friday (11 July).

The Pentagon wants more small, cheap, easily replaced drones in the hands of troops as quickly as possible, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he is cutting red tape to make that happen.

The defense secretary said he planned to boost production of drones, and supply combat units with more of them.