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Coast Guard Needs More Counter-UAS Capabilities As Use Of Drones Expands

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025

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Coast Guard Needs More Counter-UAS Capabilities As Use Of Drones Expands

Coast Guard Fast Response Cutter Norvell, based in Miami, recently interdicted a go-fast vessel carrying 18 bales of cocaine in waters near the Dominican Republic. Photo: Coast Guard

The increasing use of aerial drones by adversaries, cartels, and the clueless and careless means the Coast Guard needs to expand its use of counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) on its cutters and improve these capabilities overall, a service official told Defense Daily. The Coast Guard currently has seven of its 154-foot Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) equipped with C-UAS systems, six that are stationed in Bahrain as part of Patrol Forces Southwest Asia, and one in the U.S., a service spokesman…

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