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USAF Seeks ‘Dronebuster’ Anti-Jammer Gun To Protect Nuclear-Strike Base<\/span><\/p>\n

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Whether it’s data centers, critical infrastructure, stadiums, corporate headquarters, or even military bases, the U.S. remains largely unprepared to combat one-way attack drones, including Category 1 through 3 drones, because a critical layer of cheap, scalable counter-UAS technology is missing.<\/p>\n

The proliferation of low-cost drones across Eurasian war zones, from the Ukraine-Russia war to the US-Iran conflict in the Middle East, has permanently changed the course of modern warfare.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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One-way attack drones and FPVs have exposed a missing layer of affordable air defense around high-value assets, including military bases, energy infrastructure, data centers, ports, stadiums, and corporate headquarters. This startling development has been a major wake-up call for Western leaders and suggests only one conclusion: a massive procurement wave for counter-UAS technology is likely just ahead.<\/p>\n

Last week, Piper Sandler analyst Clarke Jeffries arrived at the same conclusion we have been highlighting<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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We anticipate one of the <\/em>biggest lessons of the 2020s <\/em><\/strong>will be how affordable drone technology fundamentally <\/em>reshaped the modern combat environment<\/em><\/strong> and set the stage for a <\/em>reevaluation of the procurement, organization and strategy of ~$3T in annual global military expenditures.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

While drones have existed in the modern military apparatus for decades at this point, it was the Ukraine war (as one of the first near-peer conflicts in recent memory) which provided <\/em>demonstrable evidence of how specifically lightweight and affordable systems could change the paradigm of combat.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The race to secure high-value assets against drones was seen last week when the U.S. Air Force moved to expand counter-drone defenses at one of America’s most sensitive nuclear missile bases by issuing a solicitation to purchase a batch of handheld counter-drone electronic warfare guns.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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According to Defense Blog<\/a>, the 5th Contracting Squadron at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota issued a June 18 solicitation to purchase DZYNE Technologies’ Dronebuster Block 4 for the 91st Security Forces Group.<\/p>\n

The Dronebuster is a rifle-shaped anti-drone jammer that an operator points at an unauthorized drone to disrupt it, rather than shooting it down with a projectile.<\/p>\n

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“Quotes from vendors are due no later than June 26, 2026, giving the defense industry less than two weeks to respond to a requirement the Air Force has formally described as an operational necessity,” Defense Blog wrote in the report.<\/p>\n

Why Minot Air Force Base seeks Dronebusters likely hinges on the need for security forces to protect B-52H Stratofortress bombers, nuclear missile infrastructure, and other high-value assets from small drones. Lessons from the US-Iran conflict show how low-cost drones can threaten +$100 million jets, or a multi-million-dollar radar or communications system.<\/p>\n

We suspect the procurement cycle for drones and counter-UAS technology is only in its early stages. We detailed how readers can profit from “The Asymmetric Warfare Boom” in a note on Saturday, found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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