Laura Heckmann
During the last year, the Navy alone has spent more than $1 billion shooting down missiles and uncrewed aerial systems in the Red Sea — an expense made unsustainable by the sheer proliferation of relatively inexpensive drones in battle zones.
The Defense Department is scrambling for affordable and adaptable counter-drone options, and it’s going to require something that’s rare to come by — agreement on how best to tackle a technology that is constantly evolving.
“We’re very interested in counter-UAS because the next war will be robotic,” retired Army Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley and defense strategic initiatives lead at Forterra said during a recent panel at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Future Force Capabilities Conference and Exhibition.
“And [it] may not look exactly like what you see in Ukraine or Israel, but it may be something very analogous to that, and it will fight combined arms,” he said.
As a result, solutions to counter drones will likely be a combination of legacy systems, new capabilities and a “shift in doctrine, organization, tactics — how we teach other leaders,” Dooley said. “So, the conversation about UAS and counter-UAS is very powerful.”
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