Army Recognition:
The threat from enemy unmanned aerial systems continues to proliferate at an astonishing rate, said the director of the Army’s newly-created Air and Missile Defense Cross-Functional Team, or AMD CFT.
To counter that threat, the Army has developed a “tiered-layered approach,” said Brig. Gen. Randy McIntire, who also serves as the commandant of the Air Defense Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and as the chief of Air Defense Artillery. McIntire spoke last month during the Association of the U.S. Army’s Global Force Symposium and Exposition here.
That tiered-layered approach, he said, involves multiple countermeasures against both attack and reconnaissance unmanned aerial systems. Those countermeasures include projectiles fired from land-based Phalanx Weapons System, reconfigurable integrated-weapons platform, and the common remotely operated weapons station. All three systems can be mounted on vehicles or fixed sites.
