Soldiers in Colorado have completed new predeployment training on countering small drones, as U.S. forces face a growing threat of attacks from the remotely piloted devices in the Middle East, the military said.
While U.S. forces deployed to Central Command have trained for years to disable small unmanned aerial systems, or sUAS, the Army’s 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson last month became the first to undergo home station counter-sUAS training before a CENTCOM deployment, the service said in a statement last week.
In Iraq, facilities housing American and allied forces have come under at least five attacks since April in which explosive-laden drones were used. Last week, Iraqi security forces shot down two drones near Baghdad, one of them armed with a bomb, the government said.
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Source: Stars and Stripes