Engineering & Design

U.S. Army Cpl. Aristotle Alfaro, Avenger team chief from 52d Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, calls to the pilot that a counter-unmanned aerial system is ready for launch near Lipa, Poland, Nov. 9, 2025. The intensive 20-day multinational Train-the-Trainer course rapidly qualified 20 students from Poland, Romania, and the U.S., most with no prior military drone experience, in a battle-tested C-UAS system through classroom, practical flight, and night operations, culminating in a successful live-fire demonstration to destroy a jet powered drone, thereby accelerating the fielding of this critical capability along the Eastern Flank Deterrence Line. As the battlefield evolves, we are leveraging U.S. experience and NATO authorities to solve problems for the Alliance. The training occurring at Lipa shows how Allies like Poland and Romania are rapidly procuring and employing systems that are battle-tested in Ukraine to strengthen the Eastern Flank Deterrence Line. This is the EFDL in action.(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jacob Kohrs, 10th AAMDC)
Air, Cyber, Military

Pentagon Deploys Merops Drone Interceptor System to Counter Iranian Shahed Threat

By Sebastien Roblin

The Pentagon has moved to acquire the Project Eagle Merops counter-UAS system and its low-cost AS3 Surveyor interceptor drone for…