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Project Vanaheim: How the U.S. and UK are trying to keep up with the UAS threat

Soldiers with the Pennsylvania National Guard train with RQ-28 short range reconnaissance quadcopters during a field training exercise at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., on Oct. 19, 2024. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Aliyah Vivier)

By Andrew White

In March, military and industry representatives from the United States and United Kingdom gathered to launch Joint Project Vanaheim, a collaborative effort initiated to “shape the future” of C-sUAS capabilities.

But as an example of just how fast capabilities are developing on battlefields around the globe, individuals involved say that just four months after launching Vanaheim, a new threat has emerged that the project has not even begun to think about.

A defense source associated with the Armed Forces of Ukraine warned a briefing in London that Russia has increasingly begun use of fiber-optic wire control measures —  a concept which allows first-person view (FPV) attack drones to avoid disruption by radio frequency jammers.

Read more at Breaking Defense

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