Pentagon unveils counter-drone strategy

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Official portrait of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who signed the counter-drone strategy Chad J. McNeeley, U.S. Department of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Defense Department announced that Secretary Lloyd Austin had signed a classified strategy for countering unmanned systems, releasing only an unclassified fact sheet. Officials called drones an urgent threat to U.S. forces overseas and increasingly at home.

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  1. OfficialAustin Signs New Strategy for Countering Effects of Unmanned Systems (DOD News, C. Todd Lopez) (opens in a new tab)U.S. Department of Defense (via Air University, af.edu) / 2024-12-05
  2. PressPentagon green-lights counter-drone strategy amid urgent threat (opens in a new tab)Defense News / 2024-12-05

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