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RIGHT REPORT Watch: Jet-Powered Coyote Blasts Enemy Drones to Pieces

New developments in the private sector are emboldening U.S. military technology, which is reassuring given the ongoing tensions with numerous adversaries abroad.

On Friday, Raytheon released footage of new Coyote drones being launched from the Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.

As the video shows, the unmanned aircraft were quickly and aggressively able to obliterate other drones, an incredibly useful capability given the nature of modern warfare.

Furthermore, the clip reveals that they are able to function at both high and low altitudes.

“Together with our Army partners, we showcased the maturity and lethality of our Counter-UAS systems against single and multiple drone threats to both U.S. and international customers,” Abel Ghanooni, senior director for Short Range Air Defense and Rapid Development Programs at Raytheon Missiles & Defense, said in a news release in October before the video was made public.

“These tests move us closer to deploying Coyote and Ku-720 globally, so they can protect service members and critical assets from enemy drones,” Ghanooni said.

According to Interesting Engineering, there is speculation that the weaponry could have played a role in taking down Iranian drones attempting to attack the U.S. and Iraqi Al-Asad Airbase earlier this month on the second anniversary of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani’s assassination. The visuals of the Coyote and the counter rocket, artillery and mortar system used in Iraq appear similar.

The outlet said the Coyote drones are fairly small and able to be tube-launched, making them an excellent way to take down other drones.

These “palletized” drones have a somewhat portable size that would allow for them to be used and t***sported in a wide variety of areas and equipment, The Drive reported.

This emerging technology could be useful in the fight against an aggressor such as Iran, which does not hold a candle to the U.S. when it comes to defense.

Although American soil is unlikely to be attacked by a foreign power in the Middle East unless it’s done through state-sponsored terrorism, U.S. service personnel are in harm’s way each day in the region.

Iran, in particular, wants to stir tensions with the United States and often uses m*****as to do its dirty work.

It’s crucial that the U.S. military continues to maintain a presence in Iraq, and Raytheon and other defense contractors are helping to intercept attacks on the troops there.

This newly released footage is a great reminder of how the free market and the government work in tandem to keep Americans safe abroad, and it is truly impressive.

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I would have called the new drones 'RoadRunner" and the targets would be "Coyotes"

woodguru

Free market...are you kidding? The day military defense contractors have anything to do with free markets is a day that will never happen

...the pentagon gives their chosen contractor ludicrous amounts of money to develop something that should be developed 100% on interested contractor's dimes.
...bid, there is no such thing as a bid that has anything to do with being a bid in any way shape or form. Once into a project they go back for hundreds of millions or even billions in cost overruns.
...Fixing fatal design flaws can cost more per unit than the original "bids" were
...After spending ludicrous amounts f money developing prototypes comes the misnamed bid price per unit. Of course the cost of development which was already paid for by the government gets wrapped back up in a cost per unit "bid", because of course they need to pay for development costs as part of the price of something.
...So then, after the military gets jets or wh**ever that were supposed to cost $50 million a unit at a cost of several times the projected or bid price, successful weapons systems go on to be sold to other countries at the more reasonable costs they should have cost the military, the government having absorbed all their development costs

I was involved in a close enough proximity to weapons systems being created by a dozen leading defense contractors in the Silicon Valley to see what they were, their costs, and the political games played to get billions more out of the government.

No defense contract has ever or ever will be anything resembling free market exceptionalism, except that their exceptionally overpriced end costs are exceptional examples of greed, graft, and fraud