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Air Force Leader Aims To Field Counter-UAV Systems Quickly

Air Force Leader Aims To Field Counter-UAV Systems Quickly
DARPA selected Northrop Grumman Corporation as a Phase 1 Swarm Systems Integrator for the Agency’s OFFSET program

Recent incidents involving small, hostile unmanned aerial vehicles in Iraq underscore the need for the United States to rapidly field defenses against this “emerging danger,” Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said Oct. 24.On Oct. 2, an Islamic State UAV armed with explosives killed two Kurdish fighters and wounded two French commandos in northern Iraq. And last week, two Air Force intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance aircraft flying in support of coalition ground forces used “electronic warfare capabilities” to down an Islamic State drone…

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