BLACKSBURG, Va., March 12 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
The conflict with Iran has generated two notable counterattacks, both because of the nature of the targets and the technology used to strike them. The first U.S. military casualties came as a result of a drone strike on an American military tactical operations center in Kuwait. Three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have also been damaged in drone attacks.
Eric Jacques is leading a cross-disciplinary effort at Virginia Tech, in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to design ways to protect people and infrastructure on the ground from drones without relying on costly and dangerous acti...