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The U.S. military is employing technologies that can effectively detect, track, ID, and neutralize adversarial UAVs that could be used for surveillance or attacks. The FAA is testing systems that neutralize UAVs in restricted airspace to avoid collision with commercial aircraft. For all those working with counter UAV systems this book presents fundamentals and discusses practical designs considerations for unimodal and multimodal approaches. It provides readers in a single volume with technologies and threats overview to detailed description of technologies used including acoustics, EOIR, radar, passive RF, and kinetic and nonkinetic defeat techniques.