Todd South
Soldiers recently deployed to the Middle East often had less than a minute to decide how to take down an incoming drone.
A unit detecting, intercepting and destroying a drone often took less than four minutes, said Maj. Gen. Scott Naumann, commander of the 10th Mountain Division.
To meet that threat, the two-star is working with his unit and using a soldier-created tool to prepare troops to counter drones more effectively.
“Training [counter-drone] should be as routine as drawing our rifles, going to the range and honing our marksmanship skills,” Naumann said at the Maneuver Warfighter Conference at Fort Moore, Georgia, in September.
The 2nd Brigade Combat Team experienced 170 one-way drone attacks between August 2023 and April 2024, according to Naumann.
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