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USAF to Buy Small Drones for Counter S-UAS Red Team Training

Frank Wolfe

Monday, July 24th, 2023

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USAF to Buy Small Drones for Counter S-UAS Red Team Training

The U.S. Air Force's 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron Counter-Small Unmanned Aerial System team launches a DGI Mavic 2 drone during an exercise on Aug. 27, 2021 in an undisclosed location in southwest Asia (U.S. Air Force Photo)

U.S. Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) plans to award a contract next month to a small business to provide small unmanned aircraft systems for Air Force counter sUAS (C-sUAS) training. The Air Force Security Forces Center (AFSC) at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas "has been tasked to establish a C-sUAS Red Team," AFMC said in a July 24 business notice. "This Red Team will be required to fly drones at AF installations in order to evaluate, test, and train C-sUAS…

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