US military bases are ‘ill-equipped’ to stop drone swarms, top commander reveals after Rubio's UAP warning
A top commander responsible for defending the U.S. homeland warned Thursday that American military bases are "ill-equipped" to repel a swarm of small attack drones.The vulnerability that persists even as the Pentagon seeks billions for new counter-drone weapons, and Army Lt.
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A top commander responsible for defending the U.S. homeland warned Thursday that American military bases are "ill-equipped" to repel a swarm of small attack drones.The vulnerability that persists even as the Pentagon seeks billions for new counter-drone weapons, and Army Lt. Joseph Jarrard said the shortfall begins well before troops try to shoot down a drone.Some bases do not have the sensors to spot and track an incoming swarm or the weapons to take it out, the deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command and vice commander of the American contingent at North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)."We don’t have the sensors, and depending on where that swarm is going to attack, it depends on whether we have any sensors at all, and also whether we’ve got any effectors to go after that problem," Jarrard said at the annual Space and Missile Defense Symposium.Jarrard said NORTHCOM is folding counter-drone tactics into Operation Noble Eagle, the long-running U.S.-Canada homeland air-defense mission.
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