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FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. – U.S. Northern Command collaborated with dozens of companies to test various counter-drone systems to protect certain national security sites from drone incursions.

USNORTHCOM demonstrated its counter-small unmanned aerial system (C-sUAS) platform during the ‘Falcon Peak 25.2’ event at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida . For the demonstration, crews launched a "hostile" drone from Santa Rosa Island before an interceptor drone captured it with a net fired from a shotgun.

Twenty anti-drone systems were tested in the days leading up to the event. Falcon Peak gives companies an opportunity to test their anti-drone systems in a realistic environment.

Squarehead Technology developed an acoustic sytem th

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