Pentagon Urgently Pushing Anti-Drone Tech to ISIS Fight

By Patrick Tucker Read bio

October 12, 2016| http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/10/pentagon-urgently-pushing-anti-drone-tech-isis-fight/132308/?oref=defenseone_today_nl

From mast-mounted radar to drone-jamming guns, the U.S. military’s anti-IED office is rushing to keep up.

On October 2, Peshmerga fighters operating against ISIS near Erbil, Iraq, shot down a small hobby drone, the kind you might buy off of Amazon. But when they investigated the downed device, it exploded, killing them and injuring two French paratroopers, based out of Orleans, according to Le Monde. With that unfortunate blast, it is believed, ISIS claimed its first casualties via a weaponized hobby drone.
It was a surprise to some, but not to all. The U.S. military has been pushing anti-drone tech to U.S. forces in the region with “a sense of urgency,” Lt. Gen. Michael Shields, the director of Joint Improvised Threat-Defeat Organization, or JIDO, told reporters on Wednesday. http://cdn.defenseone.com/defenseone/interstitial.html?v=2.1.1&rf=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defenseone.com%2Ftechnology%2F2016%2F10%2Fpentagon-urgently-pushing-anti-drone-tech-isis-fight%2F132308%2F%3Foref%3Ddefenseone_today_nl