Over the past year, Iranian drone and missile attacks killed American Soldiers at air bases in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, destroyed an E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control aircraft, and damaged other aircraft on the ground. The Combined Air Operations...
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The Air Force Point Defense Battle Lab is searching for more defense firms to demonstrate counter-drone capabilities at upcoming exercises designed to test base defenses against unmanned aerial attack.
The Air Force awarded $39 million to Raytheon to develop software to command and control air base defense against cruise missiles, drones, and other airborne threats.
While the Pentagon continues to experiment with technologies that could disable or destroy swarms of small drones, the Air Force’s acquisition lead on the effort is concerned about a lack of funding needed to meet the threat—and his office’s ability to convert promising efforts into ...
Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, recently adopted a new counter-drone system that lets its operators identify incoming threats and sever the connection between drone and operator. “The goal of the program is to build counter measures for Al-Udeid AB that would pose as a last line ...
