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For more than a year, Iran-backed Houthi rebel groups have been using small unmanned aerial systems, or UAS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2024\/06\/16\/navy-faces-most-intense-running-sea-battle-since-wwii-with-houthis\/\" target=\"_blank\">to target ships in the Red Sea<\/a>, and killer drones have featured heavily in Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DOD officials have said the department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/unmanned\/2024\/06\/28\/us-central-command-to-demo-integrated-counter-drone-sensors-this-fall\/\">is taking a layered approach<\/a> to defending against enemy drones, meaning the U.S. will pursue a range of capabilities to disable these systems, from electronic warfare to kinetic weapons. The military services have<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/unmanned\/2024\/06\/17\/defense-innovation-unit-seeks-systems-to-counter-red-sea-drone-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\"> a number of ongoing programs to develop and field this technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austin\u2019s strategy is aligned with these and other high-level DOD efforts, including those led by the Joint Counter-Small UAS office, which was established in 2019 to coordinate counter-UAS development, tactics and training across the military services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The strategy also closely follows the second phase of Replicator, which is focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2024\/09\/30\/small-drone-defense-is-next-in-pentagons-replicator-buying-push\/\" target=\"_blank\">rapidly fielding off-the-shelf counter-drone technology<\/a>. Austin, who announced Replicator 2 in September, said the Pentagon plans to request funding in fiscal 2026 and set a two-year timeline for delivering \u201cmeaningfully improved\u201d counter-UAS systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An unclassified fact sheet released Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/3986597\/dod-announces-strategy-for-countering-unmanned-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\">sheds some light on the department\u2019s strategy<\/a>, laying out five lines of effort it plans to pursue. 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