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Drones are watching 'at all times' and show just how 'scary' future wars will be, says a US Army officer focused on defeating them

Small drones are a major threat to soldiers on the battlefield, but there's no "silver bullet" to defeating them, Lt. Col. Moseph Sauda said.

Sauda is the director of the Joint C-sUAS (Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft System) University, or JCU, a new US Army initiative at Fort Sill where American troops are learning how to identify, engage, and neutralize potentially hostile drones. Indeed, one of the lessons that the US military is drawing from overseas, specifically in Ukraine, is a heightened emphasis on cover and concealment tactics, something that's being taught all the way down at the boot camp level, said Lt. Col. Adam Schultz, the commander of a basic training battalion at Fort Sill. Army leadership has been working to implement drones into basic training, employing practices like flying the aircraft above soldiers, who can then learn how to react to — and disappear from — the aerial threat, Schultz told BI in an interview.

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