Executive Overview In a significant operational milestone for military directed-energy applications, the United States Army has successfully deployed a high-energy multipurpose laser system to shoot down three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) near the US-Mexico border. The operation, executed between the night of August 25 and the early morning of August 26, targeted drones that official…
BUCHAREST — In a dramatic escalation of geopolitical tensions in the Black Sea, the Romanian military scrambled F-16 fighter jets this week to intercept and disable an explosive-laden surface drone bearing down on a critical European natural gas facility. The unmanned maritime vessel, packed with high explosives, was neutralized just hundreds of meters away from…
Executive Overview The geopolitical friction spilling over from Russia’s protracted war in Ukraine crossed a dangerous new threshold on August 11, when Romanian military forces executed a controlled underwater detonation of two Russian-made drones found adrift in the Black Sea. The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were discovered alarmingly close to the Neptun Deep offshore natural…
