U.S. soldiers deployed to Europe had a busy November testing out counter-drone systems that the service hopes to get into the hands of more NATO allies, as well as with units and allies as far away as the Indo-Pacific.

First Polish, Romanian, and American troops trained together Nov. 18 in Poland on Merops , an AI-enabled, pickup-truck-transportable system that identifies enemy drones, then launches a cheap fixed-wing drone to ram them. At the same time, the Army held Operation Flytrap 4.5 in Germany, a competition of 20 cUAS contenders in a competition for one of four $350,000 prizes.

“It also demonstrated our capability, just as Flytrap did, to integrate with industry, to move very quickly to employ a capability that's lethal,” Brig. Gen. Curt King, who leads the 10th Army Air and

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