The LASSO system is a man-portable, ground launched, lethal payload munition and unmanned aerial system (UAS) with anti-armour capability for use by Infantry Brigade Combat Teams
“Operators desire low-cost, fast-to-field, fast-to-deploy airborne ISR mass to increase mission flexibility and mission surging”
A concept from scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology adapts the physics behind the traditional South American bola weapon into a modern drone defence technology designed for short-range interception.
The U.S. military secretly brought the OV-10 back into combat against ISIS. Nearly fifty years after its first missions in Vietnam, the old twin-boom aircraft once again found itself circling above rivers, tracking small enemy boats for hours before destroying them with precision-guided rockets.