WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 14th December, 2018) The United States and Germany launched a new initiative at a meeting in Berlin to counter the growing threat of terrorists using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) or drones to carry out attacks, the State Department said in a press release.
"The United States and Germany, under the auspices of the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF), launched the Initiative to Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) Threats on December 13, 2018 in Berlin," the release said on Thursday.
The event was held alongside the Initiative's first regional workshop on December 14, which focused on countering the UAS threat in Europe, the State Department said.
Participants from national and local governments and international organizations at the launch event and workshop exchanged assessments of the threat, national policies, and legislative responses towards terrorist use of UAS, and established technologies to counter UAS, the note added.
