September 17, 2021
How the U.S. Military Is Preparing for Unmanned Warfare
Can the U.S. defend against a drone swarm?
by Michael Peck
Here's What You Need to Remember: For U.S. forces spoiled by 70 years of unchallenged superiority, it will come as a rude shock that the skies are not friendly. Hence the U.S. Army is asking for ways to detect and destroy drones.
Drones were great for a while, as long as it was only the U.S. military that used them. Now the Pentagon is waking up to the possibility that potential enemies like China, Iran and North Korea might use them against America.
But it's not just drones that are the threat. It's swarms of drones, perhaps tens or dozens or hundreds, spying or striking at U.S. troops. A poor man's form of asymmetric warfare capitalizing on the simple fact that you can strap a camera or a bomb to a $300 flying robot that a 10-year-old can operate.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/how-us-military-preparing-unmanned-warfare-193750
