On August 1, at the Bemowo Piskie Training Area in northeast Poland, soldiers from the US Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment demonstrated the Army’s newest counter-drone technology in a live-fire event that underscored the growing importance of close-range aerial defense. The Ballistic Low Altitude Drone Engagement system , or BLADE , mounted on a Stryker armored vehicle, detected, tracked, and destroyed multiple drones during Project Flytrap 4.0 .

Soldiers engaged targets at ranges between 500 and 800 meters. Some drones were flown simultaneously, testing the system’s ability to switch between threats. In one instance, BLADE neutralized a target and shifted to a second within seconds.

For the Army, which faces a rising threat from low-cost, commercially available drones and coordinated s

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