Despite the fact that the United States has spent significant funds for decades on implementing a strategy to combat enemy unmanned aerial vehicles, the scale of these efforts today is "insufficient". Given this, the vulnerability of American military is "could eventually lead to the US losing a war against adversarial state actors and nations, namely China".
This is the conclusion contained in a new report by the American Center for New American Security (CNAS) authored by Stacie Pettyjohn and Molly Campbell, according to Breaking Defense.
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The main conclusion is that "without deep magazines of substantially enhanced counter-drone capabilities, the United States risks having its distributed warfighting strategies overwhelmed by massed Chinese drone attacks, and the United States could lose a war over Taiwan."
Among all the proposals for responding to the drone threat, the report’s author, Stacie Pettyjohn, highlighted three of the most important ones in her opinion in a conversation with the publication:
- scaling up platforms with modified ammunition to defeat smaller drone swarms:
- fielding directed energy solutions like high-power microwaves (HPMs) to take out larger drone swarms and
- utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence for initial threat detection.
From the Defense Express side, we note that one of the solutions may also be the integration of anti-aircraft drones, which are already demonstrating their effectiveness on the battlefield.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the possibility of controlled arms exports, so the American military has the opportunity to purchase so-called battle proven weapons – those that have been tested in difficult battlefield conditions.
In the case of purchasing such weapons from Ukraine [if, of course, there is "surplus" weapons for export] The United States has the opportunity to obtain the necessary weapons in a fairly short time, and it is possible to agree on the localization of production.
Whereas, for example, in the USA itself, it took several years and a separate project to create a drop system and integrate a grenade into drones.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that Europe has already followed this path - the other day it became known that the European "drone wall" project will rely on Ukrainian anti-aircraft interceptor drones, which will be produced in the UK.
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