This week, from July 27 to 31, in Poland, at the Bemowo Piske training ground near Elk, intense exercises were held to combat one of the most pressing threats to the modern battlefield — enemy drones. They were attended by American soldiers from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment of the V Corps and their allies from the United Kingdom.
These multinational maneuvers are called Project Flytrap 4.0 ("Trap 4.0 Project"). Their main goal is not just to practice tactics, but to develop and test inexpensive, portable solutions for the suppression and destruction of unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS). In an environment where cheap commercial drones and kamikaze FPV have become deadly weapons, armies need affordable and effective ways to protect their positions, equipment and personnel.
The exercises in Poland are a laboratory for new ideas. Soldiers from the United States and Great Britain jointly tested various electronic jamming systems, drone locators, and possibly even hand traps to find optimal and scalable responses to the drone threat. Successful solutions developed within the framework of Project Flytrap can be quickly implemented in units serving along the eastern flank of NATO.
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