The U.S. Military Has a Plan to Transform F-16 Fighters Into Drone Swarm Destroyers

The U.S. Military Has a Plan to Transform F-16 Fighters Into Drone Swarm Destroyers

The Pentagon is arming its fleet of F-16 fighter jets and UH-60 SeaHawks with a new air-to-air missile variant engineered with a “proximity” fuse designed to counter drone swarms by dispersing fragments across an “area.” New counter-drone explosives are being built into a variant of the classic, highly cherished infrared-guided Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) rockets. F-16A on USS Intrepid NSJ Image. Taken by Jack Buckby on 9/18/20…