The Defense Department is planning its most ambitious counter-drone demonstration to date, pitting a swarm of as many as 50 small uncrewed surrogate enemy aircraft over the New Mexico skies against a yet-to-be-determined group of candidate technologies in a contest where non-kinetic weapons, such as high-powered microwaves, may have an advantage. The Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft System Office (JCO) plans next June to conduct Demo 5 at White Sands Missile Range, NM, in an effort to find a weapon system...
