Soldados de EEUU, Rumania y Polonia, se reunieron en este \u00faltimo pa\u00eds para experimentar con el sistema de defensa \u201cContra Drones\u201d (C-UAS) MEROPS. Se trata de un sistema interceptor asistido por Inteligencia Artificial, que puede ser transportado en un veh\u00edculo mediano tipo pick-up. MEROPS es capaz de detectar amenazas como los drones Shahed de baja altura y velocidad, para neutralizarlos lanzando un interceptor de ala fija y muy bajo costo. Estos ensayos tienen por objetivo desarrollar capacidades C-UAS disponibles masivamente y de manera descentralizada entre los elementos de combate. Se espera que MEROPS sea provisto en un futuro cercano en las unidades de la NATO y aliados que operan en el Comando del Indo \u2013 Pac\u00edfico.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
First Polish, Romanian, and American troops trained together Nov. 18 in Poland on\u00a0Merops<\/a>, 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\u00a0Operation Flytrap 4.5<\/a>\u00a0in Germany, a competition of 20 cUAS contenders in a competition for\u00a0one of four $350,000 prizes.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt also demonstrated our capability, just as Flytrap did, to integrate with industry, to move very quickly to employ a capability that’s lethal,\u201d Brig. Gen. Curt King, who leads the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Germany, told reporters Tuesday. \u201cIt can defeat the\u00a0Shahed-type threats<\/a>, but also it demonstrates our ability to place capabilities that are much cheaper than some of our other previous systems that we’ve been using to date, to ensure that we are\u00a0 able to build the capacity against the drone threats that could be placed into the air.\u201d<\/p>\n The U.S. has been using air defense systems to shoot down drones, with missiles that cost millions of dollars each. A Merops interceptor drone costs about $15,000, about half the price of the\u00a0Shaheds<\/a>\u00a0that Ukrainians have been\u00a0shooting down<\/a>\u00a0with it.<\/p>\n \u201cThe other thing that we demonstrated with Flytrap, and that Ukraine has shown us \u2026 is the technology is rapidly evolving so that we can get to enhanced decision aids and autonomy, which Ukraine has been rapidly developing, so that I don’t need 10 soldiers to do a function,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n First Polish, Romanian, and American troops trained together Nov. 18 in Poland on\u00a0Merops<\/a>, 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\u00a0Operation Flytrap 4.5<\/a>\u00a0in Germany, a competition of 20 cUAS contenders in a competition for\u00a0one of four $350,000 prizes.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt also demonstrated our capability, just as Flytrap did, to integrate with industry, to move very quickly to employ a capability that’s lethal,\u201d Brig. Gen. Curt King, who leads the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Germany, told reporters Tuesday. \u201cIt can defeat the\u00a0Shahed-type threats<\/a>, but also it demonstrates our ability to place capabilities that are much cheaper than some of our other previous systems that we’ve been using to date, to ensure that we are\u00a0 able to build the capacity against the drone threats that could be placed into the air.\u201d<\/p>\n The U.S. has been using air defense systems to shoot down drones, with missiles that cost millions of dollars each. A Merops interceptor drone costs about $15,000, about half the price of the\u00a0Shaheds<\/a>\u00a0that Ukrainians have been\u00a0shooting down<\/a>\u00a0with it.<\/p>\n \u201cThe other thing that we demonstrated with Flytrap, and that Ukraine has shown us \u2026 is the technology is rapidly evolving so that we can get to enhanced decision aids and autonomy, which Ukraine has been rapidly developing, so that I don’t need 10 soldiers to do a function,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n