Overview
- Project Flytrap 5.0 finished at Lithuania’s Pabradė Training Area as a U.S. Army V Corps counter-drone exercise inside NATO’s Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative with U.S., U.K. and allied units.
- The force linked more than 50 industry tools across a shared U.S.–U.K. data network, including radars, radio-frequency jammers, kinetic interceptors, launched effects and unmanned ground vehicles.
- Scenarios put dozens of drones in the air at once and pushed troops to find, jam and shoot down threats while they kept their own drones flying.
- Soldiers worked through harsh weather and long field shifts and sent instant reports to vendors so weak parts could be fixed and reliability improved before wider fielding.
- Leaders plan Flytrap 6.0 at brigade scale to validate the approach and shape doctrine and buying decisions.