🇺🇸 Swarm Wars: Pentagon holds toughest drone-defense demo to date

🔶️ Eight counter-UAS systems — wielding a mix of radars, machineguns, missiles, jammers, and more — were tested against swarms of up to 50 drones of different types attacking simultaneously from different directions and speeds.

🔶️ With drone strikes in the news from Kyiv to Tel Aviv, the Pentagon’s all-service drone defense program just held its most ambitious field demonstration yet, with up to 50 unmanned aircraft of different types converging on a single target at a time.

🔶️ “Demo Five really was our most challenging JCO demonstration to date,” said Col. Michael Parent, chief of acquisitions & resources at the Army-led JCO, the mercifully short acronym for Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft System Office.

🔶️ The JCO demonstrations at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, first held in April 2021, take prototype systems developed by private firms and test their ability to defend against drones. This year’s especially ambitious event focused on repeated swarm attacks, although the details of the scenario were not shared with vendors beforehand. Attacking waves, coming from different altitudes and angles, also included multiple types of drones — fast jets, slower prop-driven drones, and mini-helicopters — ranging in size from under 20 pounds (Group 1 UAS) to over 1,000 (Group 3).

🔶️ Instead of being built around a single weapon, most of these offerings were “layered” defenses that combined multiple sensors to detect the drones, which often are too low, slow, and small for radar, and “effectors” to take them down.

🔶️ “No one capability, whether kinetic or non-kinetic, in itself could really just beat this kind of [attack] profile,” Parent said. “What we saw was they really do need a full system of systems approach, a layered approach.”

🔶️ Interestingly, however, none of the vendors in this demo used “directed energy” weapons, such as lasers or high-powered microwaves. (That said, an HPM weapon was tested in a spinoff event at the same time.)

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/07/swarm-wars-pentagon-holds-toughest-drone-defense-demo-to-date/

🏴‍☠️ 🇸🇴 🇹🇷 The Government of the Republic of Somaliland vehemently rejects any potential deployment of Turkish naval forces within Somaliland’s recognized maritime zones.

🔶️ Any unilateral action by external entities, such as the reported intention of Turkish naval forces to operate in Somaliland maritime zones, constitutes a grave violation of international law and Somaliland’s sovereign rights. Such actions undermine regional stability and contravene the spirit of peaceful coexistence among neighboring states.

🔶️ Somaliland for the past 20 years has had a robust framework for protecting its territorial waters from piracy, human trafficking and terrorism. Through the Somaliland Coast Guard and in collaboration with our international partners, we conduct patrols, surveillance, and enforcement operations to safeguard our maritime zones. Our efforts and proactive measures, both at sea and on land ensure the safety and security of our waters and the safe passage of international trade along our maritime borders.

🔶️ The Government of the Republic of Somaliland will continue to protect its territorial integrity and sovereignty against any encroachment, and we stand firm in our commitment to upholding the rule of law in international relations.

https://mfa.govsomaliland.org/article/government-republic-somaliland-vehemently-rejects-deployment?category=press-release

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Netanyahu to Biden at the White House:

From a proud Jewish Zionist to a proud Irish-American Zionist, I would like to thank you for 50 years of public service and your support for the State of Israel over 50 years.

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