BEMOWO PISKIE TRAINING AREA, Poland — Soldiers from the Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment detected, tracked, engaged and defeated multiple drones at ranges between 500 and 800 meters using the Ballistic Low Altitude Drone Engagement, or BLADE, system from a Stryker vehicle at the Bemowo Piskie Training Area in northeast Poland during a live fire event for Project Flytrap 4.0 on Aug. 1.

“Some of those (drone) threats were being flown simultaneously, so the system defeated one target then quickly targeted and defeated a second target in a matter of seconds,” said David Goldstein, counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS) lead for the Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center.

The Armaments Center ran the BLADE science and technology project from 2016-2019 to develop a capability to

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