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The 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron completed the first round of MQ-9A Reaper ground and flight testing with the Angry Kitten ALQ-167 Electronic Countermeasures Pod at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, in April 2023.

Fur-midable: US Air Force pairs Angry Kitten jammer with Reaper drone

Angry Kitten’s name is a brew of inside joke and design goals, and is a departure from the typically terrifying military moniker, like Hellfire or Stryker.

By Colin Demarest

7 months ago

US Army sets timeline for demo of new, hard-to-detect mobile command post

“Project Convergence is probably in our future,” said Tyler Barton, a computer scientist and project lead with the C5ISR Center. “Probably not next year.”

By Colin Demarest

16 months ago

US Army to double cyber corps strength as focus shifts from counterinsurgency

"We're on a multiyear growth pattern," said Army Lt. Gen. John Morrison. "But we're in a pretty good spot right now."

By Colin Demarest

18 months ago

US forces could learn from intense electronic war battle in Ukraine

Ukraine has lost nearly 100 drones to Russian electronic attacks on navigation systems through a tactic known as GPS spoofing.

By Shawn Snow

4 years ago

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