Counter-drone warfare at scale? Army demo shows it’s getting closer

TRUPPENÜBUNGSPLATZ PUTLOS TRAINING GROUND, Germany—In a grassy field near the Baltic Sea, U.S. soldiers used net-shooting hunter drones, specially outfitted 557 rifles, and .50-caliber machine guns to drop dozens of drones, large and small, into the cold mud.For the U.S. Army, the daylong event marked the beginning of the end of firing $4-million missiles at $20,000 drones; for its European counterparts, it showed off options to counter Russia’s accelerating threat.The event was