JRTC and Fort Polk hosts Operation Viper Watchtower UAS competition

FORT POLK La. — Fort Polk’s Joint Readiness Training Center is laser focused on training Soldiers to have the essential skills necessary to use cutting edge technology effectively downrange. That technology includes warfighting tools such as small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, commonly known as drones. That’s why JRTC decided to create and host Operation Viper Watchtower, a competition that assesses the integration of advanced sUAS in countering covert reconnaissance threats. The parameters of the competition include hunter teams that focus on locating and neutralizing opposing UAS elements, while UAS teams seek to control the airspace, detect, track and engage incoming threats using simulated indirect fire. In addition, the day before the competition, Oct. 6, an Industry Expo Day was held, providing industry partners the opportunity to showcase relevant technologies and capabilities. Everyone from local school children, Soldiers, government civilians, the media and more were invited to attend the expo, ask questions, watch demonstrations with sUAS drones and gather a better understanding of the systems themselves, as well as the growing importance of this technology to the changing l

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