The Fight Against Unmanned Aircraft Intrusions
The DARPA Mobile Force Protection (MFP) program seeks to develop an integrated system able to defeat a raid of self-guided small unmanned aircraft attacking a high-value convoy on the move.
December 5, 2017 | Source: Military & Aerospace Electronics, militaryaerospace.com, 20 November 2017, J.R. Wilson
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