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Threat of Small Drones Top Concern for CENTCOM Commander

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Threat of Small Drones Top Concern for CENTCOM Commander
Leaders from the Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office enter the portable control center of Air Force Research Laboratory’s Tactical High Power Operational Responder (THOR) to view the system’s drone-killing capabilities on Feb. 11 at Kirtland AFB, N.M. THOR is a prototype directed energy weapon used to disable the electronics in drones, and specifically engineered to counter multiple targets – such as a drone swarm. A number of contractors, including BAE Systems, Verus Research, and Leidos, helped develop THOR (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The threat of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) is a top concern for the head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie. Two disparate issues--the future of refugees/displaced persons in the CENTCOM area of responsiblity (AoR) and the use of small drones by unfriendly states and non-state actors--"keep me up at night," McKenzie told an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) forum on Apr. 27. Al-Hawl, a camp in northeastern Syria near the Syria-Iraq border, shelters some 60,000 refugees, mostly…

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