Countering Unmanned Aerial System Attacks a Priority

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Marines assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 165 (Reinforced), 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, walk an FIM-92 Stinger man-portable air-defense system to a firing point aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer while supporting a counter unmanned aerial system exercise in the Pacific Ocean, Nov. 4, 2023 (DoD News).
Marines assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 165 (Reinforced), 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, walk an FIM-92 Stinger man-portable air-defense system to a firing point aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer while supporting a counter unmanned aerial system exercise in the Pacific Ocean, Nov. 4, 2023 (DoD News).

November 27, 2023 | Originally published by U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) on November 14, 2023

The Joint Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office is working on countermeasures, training, and doctrine to establish solutions to address defense against unmanned aerial system attacks.

Army Maj. Gen. Sean A. Gainey, director of that office, spoke today at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event titled “Countering Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems.” “Each of the military services, in partnership with industry, is conducting experiments and doing field testing with a variety of ways to defeat UAS attacks,” he said.