Counter-UAS Operations at the World Cup: A Template for Layered Airspace Defense

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Kansas City's counter-UAS operations at the World Cup involved a layered defense integrating local and federal agencies with $14 million federal funding. Detection sensors and jamming devices were used alongside FBI teams to create a detect-track-defeat airspace security strategy.

Kansas City’s counter-UAS posture at the World Cup has been a case study in civil-military airspace integration. Axios’ Travis Meir reports that with $14 million in federal funding, the Kansas City Police Department fielded detection sensors and signal-jamming “drone guns” from DroneShield, operating alongside FBI counter-drone teams in a layered local-federal architecture.  This detect-track-defeat doctrine is applied to a domestic … Read more The post Counter-UAS Operations at the World Cup: A Template for Layered Airspace Defense appeared first on Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University.