Originally Posted by
SLXOwft
History teaches us that any military technological edge is transitory, there are many countries either (potentially) hostile or neutral with military/economic links to the former churning out STEM graduates some of whom will be working to produce the EW and AD solutions to counteract UAVs big, medium and small. Also (especially) small attritable UAVs ae going to be lost and some will end up subject to reverse engineering.
The UK issued a contract notice in 2017: 'The Authority has an Urgent Capability Requirement (UCR) to provide a Counter Unmanned Air System (C-UAS) capability (Technology Readiness Level 8 minimum) for UK armed forces. The Capability shall be able to Detect, Track, Identify and Defeat UAS's with weight ranges of between 2-150kg.'
TRL8 = System complete and qualified