{"id":51613,"date":"2025-12-05T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=51613"},"modified":"2025-12-06T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T13:43:09","slug":"counter-uas-on-american-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/counter-uas-auf-amerikanischen-schiffen\/","title":{"rendered":"Counter-UAS on American ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took almost a year for the Defence Committee in Washington to learn of the results of a series of tests conducted by the Navy in the middle of the year in which four different systems for defence against small UAS drones, known as counter-UAS (C-UAS), were evaluated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51836\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51836\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13c-usa-roadrunner-coyote-burke-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Close-range defence weapons &quot;Roadrunner&quot; and &quot;Coyote&quot; in navalised version. Photo: US Navy\" width=\"819\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13c-usa-roadrunner-coyote-burke-300x169.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13c-usa-roadrunner-coyote-burke-1024x576.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13c-usa-roadrunner-coyote-burke-768x432.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13c-usa-roadrunner-coyote-burke-18x10.jpg 18w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13c-usa-roadrunner-coyote-burke.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close-range defence weapons \"Roadrunner\" and \"Coyote\" in navalised version. Photo: US Navy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In August last year, the two Arleigh Burke destroyers \"USS Jason Dunham\" and \"USS The Sullivans\" tested the effectiveness of the HPV (High Velocity Projectile) on board, the laser\/radar-guided Longbow \"Hellfire\" air-to-ground anti-tank missile (AGM-114), the twinjet-powered and AI-supported Anduril drone \"Roadrunner\", and the autonomous and swarm-capable Raytheon \"Coyote\" interceptor small aircraft. The aim was to determine which combination of these weapons is best suited for use in the next carrier battle group for defence against so-called \"low-cost saturation attacks\" (swarm attacks with low-cost drones).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51835\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51835\" style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51835\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13b-usa-longbow_hellfire-usn-s_hardgrove-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"Launch of a Longbow &quot;Hellfire&quot; from a Freedom-class LCS. Photo: US Navy\/S.Hardgrove\" width=\"386\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13b-usa-longbow_hellfire-usn-s_hardgrove-300x200.jpeg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13b-usa-longbow_hellfire-usn-s_hardgrove-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13b-usa-longbow_hellfire-usn-s_hardgrove-768x512.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13b-usa-longbow_hellfire-usn-s_hardgrove-18x12.jpeg 18w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13b-usa-longbow_hellfire-usn-s_hardgrove.jpeg 1460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Launch of a Longbow \"Hellfire\" from a Freedom-class LCS. Photo: US Navy\/S.Hardgrove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Test result: They all do it! The good news is that they are all already at sea - in different configurations from the LCS in the Persian Gulf\/Red Sea to the CSG of the aircraft carrier \"USS Gerald R. Ford\" off Norway. There, the two Arleigh Burke destroyers of the newer Flight IIA are equipped with the \"Coyote\" system (port side next to the VLS shaft of the aft superstructure). \"Coyote\" is fired in the direction of the threat and searches for\/discriminates its target by means of installed AI - which can also be influenced from a central location during the approach to the target.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51616\" style=\"width: 993px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51616\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13d-usa-bainbridge_coyote-usn-j_mattingly-Kopie-e1765028497254-300x106.jpg\" alt=\"Bainbridge with &quot;Coyote&quot;, Photo: US Navy\/J.Mattingly\" width=\"993\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13d-usa-bainbridge_coyote-usn-j_mattingly-Kopie-e1765028497254-300x106.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13d-usa-bainbridge_coyote-usn-j_mattingly-Kopie-e1765028497254-1024x363.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13d-usa-bainbridge_coyote-usn-j_mattingly-Kopie-e1765028497254-768x272.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13d-usa-bainbridge_coyote-usn-j_mattingly-Kopie-e1765028497254-18x6.jpg 18w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/13d-usa-bainbridge_coyote-usn-j_mattingly-Kopie-e1765028497254.jpg 1383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USS Bainbridge with \"Coyote\", Photo: US Navy\/J.Mattingly<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Es hat fast ein Jahr gedauert, bis der Verteidigungsausschuss in Washington Mitte des Jahres von den Ergebnissen einer Testreihe der Navy erfuhr, in der vier verschiedene Systeme zur Abwehr von anfliegenden UAS-Kleindrohnen, bezeichnet als Counter-UAS (C-UAS), bewertet wurden \u2013 dabei w\u00e4re gerade das doch nun wirklich zeitkritisch. Bereits im August letzten Jahres pr\u00fcften die beiden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,486,32],"tags":[1207,11262,7128,237,11263,394,1460],"class_list":["post-51613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt","category-headlines","category-magazin","tag-arleigh-burke","tag-counter-uas","tag-drohnenabwehr","tag-maritime-sicherheit","tag-schwarmangriffe","tag-us-navy","tag-uss-gerald-r-ford"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51838,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51613\/revisions\/51838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}