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NORAD and U.S. Northern Command Plan C-sUAS Exercise This Fall

NORAD and U.S. Northern Command Plan C-sUAS Exercise This Fall
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Austin Geter (left), 51st Security Forces Squadron (51st SFS) counter small unmanned aircraft systems (C-sUAS) program manager, shows U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Winell de Mesa (right), 7th Air Force force protection division chief, the detection capabilities of one of the C-sUAS tools used by the 51st SFS on March 22, 2023 at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea (U.S. Air Force Photo)

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S. Northern Command are to hold the Falcon Peak 2025 (FP 25) counter small unmanned aircraft systems (C-sUAS) experiment this fall in Colorado to showcase promising new technologies against Group 1 and Group 2 UAS weighing up to 55 pounds. While DoD said it is able to use traditional counter air systems against larger Group 4 and Group 5 drones, "low and slow" UAS are harder to "detect, track, identify, and engage." The…

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