2026年4月27日 / 美国东部时间下午7:40 / 哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）新闻
北卡罗来纳州费耶特维尔—— 三架小型无人机在头顶呼啸而过，由士兵用笔记本电脑操控。其中两架“大黄蜂”无人机被设定为撞击第三架无人机，这是士兵们针对乌克兰战场数月来出现的无人机对战战术展开的入门训练内容。
此次训练上周在布拉格堡举行，面向第82空降师的一小批士兵，与五角大楼量产廉价反无人机系统的计划同步，这类系统可让美军官兵快速便捷地投入使用。
士兵们分别使用了“大黄蜂”V1型和较新型号的V2型无人机。V1是一款小型第一视角无人机，已在乌克兰完成数千架次战斗飞行；V2配备专门用于反无人机作战的自动目标识别系统，目前尚未部署。
负责五角大楼跨部门反无人机特别工作组的高级 enlisted 顾问凯伦·罗利军士长表示，训练主要围绕V1型无人机展开，该机型已被第82空降师和第10山地师的其他士兵投入使用。
罗利表示，V1型无人机的训练目前在多个国内军事基地以及美国中央司令部位于中东的训练中心开展。随着越来越多美军人员被部署到中东地区，他们也将能够开始接受这类系统的入门训练。
“他们能掌握无人机对战所需的技能，”罗利在谈及这项训练时说道，“到目前为止我们收到的反馈是‘不可能在5分钟内学会，但只要投入40小时专门学习如何操作这套系统，他们就能成为合格的操作人员’。”
国防部设立该特别工作组，旨在与其他政府机构协调开展反无人机工作。乌克兰战争、美国军事基地附近的无人机入侵事件，以及如今与伊朗的冲突，都凸显了加快研发相关技术的紧迫性。
“大黄蜂”是美军考虑使用的小型反无人机系统之一，取代此前主要用于拦截来袭导弹的昂贵拦截弹。美国军方在与伊朗的对峙中，已对这类弹药的库存储备表示担忧。
“进攻性无人机与我们用于击落它们的装备之间存在成本曲线失衡的问题，”负责该特别工作组采购事务的中校亚历克斯·莫尔斯说道，他手中正拿着V2型无人机的原型机。
“通常我们的防御装备成本高达数十万甚至数百万美元，而这款系统的成本远低于此。我们还将继续压低成本，使其降至数千美元的个位数区间。”
两款机型都小巧到士兵可以单手握持，均配备四轴螺旋桨、中部摄像头和电池。两款机型的区别在于，V1需要飞行员手动调整速度和高度以锁定目标，而V2搭载自主目标识别软件，可在飞行员批准后自动接近目标。V2还配备了额外的摄像头传感器和可俯仰的云台摄像头，而非固定摄像头，因此能够上下移动。
据陆军官员介绍，“大黄蜂”无人机的设计目标是击落比伊朗产“沙赫德”系列更小的无人机，后者重量约400磅，伊朗和俄罗斯均有使用。
两款机型均由美国国防企业Perennial Autonomy生产，该公司由谷歌前首席执行官埃里克·施密特投资支持，训练期间该公司专家全程在场，收集陆军方面的反馈意见。
“我们不想生产出上万件却根本无法使用的装备，”陆军联合创新哨所主任汤姆·莫纳汉上校对记者说道。
记者周四在布拉格堡见证的两次演示使用了三架V1型无人机，其中两架组成编队，攻击被设定为敌方无人机的第三架无人机。
敌方无人机悬停在一处空域，仿佛正在收集情报，另外两架无人机轮流加速冲向敌方无人机将其击落。
每架无人机均可由一名飞行员通过电脑单独操控，但在本次训练场景中，士兵们以团队形式协作。两到三名士兵围坐在笔记本电脑旁，另有一名士兵在他们身后走动，协调各小组之间的行动。士兵们共同商议飞行方向、高度和速度，随后齐声下令发起攻击。
在演示过程中，出现了几次脱靶情况，无人机径直从敌方无人机旁飞过；还有两次，无人机成功撞击敌方无人机，但并未将其完全击落。一旦无人机被另一架击中，士兵们就会上前回收两架无人机，并将它们加入之前训练中损坏的无人机堆中。
官员们表示，记者现场观摩的训练主要是帮助士兵掌握射击要领，这也是为什么无人机被设定为悬停不动。随着飞行员操作水平提升，后续将推出不同的训练场景，包括在电子干扰环境下对无人机进行测试。
“这些士兵才刚刚接触这项训练——他们表现得非常出色，”特别工作组主任高级顾问泰德·查维斯对记者说道，同时列举了士兵们训练的内容：班组协同动作、射击要领、无人机组装、任务规划和团队协作。
“他们明天还会继续训练，下周也会训练，几周后还会回来接受额外的进阶训练，”查维斯说道。
五角大楼还计划为该项目投入更多资金。五角大楼预算局长朱尔斯·赫斯特上周对记者表示，本年度的预算申请中包含近750亿美元用于无人机项目，这是“美国历史上对无人机作战和反无人机技术规模最大的一次投资”。
82nd Airborne soldiers train on drone-countering maneuvers used in Ukraine
April 27, 2026 / 7:40 PM EDT / CBS News
Fayetteville, North Carolina — Three small drones whizzed overhead, piloted by soldiers on laptops. Two of the Bumblebee drones were being steered to collide with the third, as part of the soldiers’ initial training for the kind of drone-on-drone combat that’s been taking place for months on the battlefield in Ukraine.
The training was held at Fort Bragg last week for a small group of soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division in tandem with the Pentagon’s efforts to produce cheap counter-drone systems that can quickly and easily be put to use by service members.
The soldiers trained on both the Bumblebee V1, a small, first-person-view drone that has seen thousands of combat flights in Ukraine, and the newer Bumblebee V2, which has automatic target recognition specifically meant to counter other drones and which has not been deployed yet.
Most of the training was on the Bumblebee V1, which is already being used by other soldiers in the 82nd Airborne Division and in the 10th Mountain Division, according to Sgt. Maj. Kellen Rowley, who is the senior enlisted adviser for the Pentagon’s interagency counter-drone task force.
L: Two of the Bumblebee V1s moments after one collided into another to take it down.R: Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division piloting Bumblebee V1s from laptops. Eleanor Watson / CBS News
Rowley said training for the V1 is taking place at several domestic bases, as well as at a training center for U.S. Central Command in the Middle East. As more service members flow into the Middle East, they will also be able to start doing the same kind of initial training on these systems.
“They pick up the skills necessary to do drone-on-drone combat,” Rowley said of the training. “The feedback that we’ve heard thus far is ‘I’m not gonna learn it in five minutes, but if I have 40 hours dedicated to learn how to figure this out,’ they’re gonna be an effective operator.”
The Defense Department set up the task force to coordinate with other government agencies on countering drones. The war in Ukraine, drone incursions near military bases in the U.S. and now the conflict with Iran have all demonstrated the urgency of developing the technology faster.
The Bumblebee is one of the smaller systems the military is looking to use, instead of the more expensive interceptors that were developed primarily to take down incoming missiles. The U.S. military in the war with Iran has raised concerns about U.S. stockpiles of those types of munitions.
Bumblebee V1 drone at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina. Defense Department
“There’s a cost curve challenge, the offensive drones being used versus what we’re using to shoot them down,” said Lt. Col. Alex Morse, who manages acquisitions for the task force.
“Usually our defensive capability is in the hundreds of thousands or maybe in the millions. This is far below that,” Morse said, as he held a prototype of the Bumblebee V2. “And we’re going to continue to drive the cost down into the single digits of thousands.”
Both versions are small enough for a soldier to hold. They have four legs with propellers, a camera in the middle, and a battery. The difference in the versions is that while the V1 requires the pilot to manually adjust the speed and altitude to lock onto a target, the V2 has autonomous targeting software to close in on a target that is approved by the pilot. The V2 has additional camera sensors and a gimbaled camera, not fixed, so it can move up and down.
The Bumblebees are designed to take out drones that are smaller than the Iranian-produced Shaheds estimated at 400 pounds used by both Iran and Russia, according to the Army officials.
Both are produced by Perennial Autonomy, a U.S. defense firm backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, which had experts at the training to collect feedback from the Army.
“What we don’t want to do is produce something and we have 10,000 of things that just don’t work,” Col. Tom Monaghan, the director of the Army’s Joint Innovation Outpost, told reporters.
The two demonstrations reporters witnessed on Thursday at Fort Bragg consisted of three Bumblebee V1s, two working as a team against a third drone that was designated as the enemy drone.
The enemy drone hovered in one spot, as if it were gathering intelligence, and the two other drones took turns accelerating and revving into the enemy drone to take it down.
Each drone can be flown by one pilot controlling the drone from a computer, but in this training scenario, the soldiers worked as a team. Two or three soldiers seated near each laptop and then one soldier walking behind them coordinating between the teams. The soldiers together worked out the direction, altitude, and speed before calling out when to attack the enemy drone.
In the demonstrations, there were some misses where the drone raced right past the enemy drone, and twice, the drones collided with the enemy drone without completely taking it down. Once the drone was hit by another drone, the soldiers walked over to retrieve both drones and added them to the pile of drones damaged in earlier training sessions.
L: A soldier holds a Bumblebee V1 drone damaged after another drone attacked it. R: The pile of Bumblebees damaged after being targeted by other drones in training at Fort Bragg. Eleanor Watson / CBS News
The training reporters saw was largely about marksmanship for the soldiers, the officials said, which is why the drones just hovered in one spot, and as the pilots improve, there will be different iterations, including testing the drones in an environment with electronic jamming.
“This is Day One for these kids — they’re doing an amazing job,” Ted Chavis, the senior adviser to the director of the task force, told reporters as he listed skills the soldiers trained on: crew drills, marksmanship, building drones, mission planning and coordination.
“They’re going to go out and train tomorrow. They’re going to train next week. And then they’re going to come back in a couple weeks and do additional advanced training,” Chavis said.
The Pentagon also plans to put more money behind the effort. The budget request for this year includes nearly $75 billion for drones, which is “the largest investment in drone warfare and counter-drone technology in U.S. history,” Jules Hurst, the Pentagon comptroller, told reporters last week.
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