Overview
- A one-way attack drone carrying a prototype BRAKER warhead destroyed a test bunker at Redstone Arsenal on March 26.
- BRAKER, short for Bunker Rupture and Kinetic Explosive Round, is a small ground‑penetrating warhead built for drone delivery in a 3D‑printed shell.
- Army leaders said the Picatinny team moved from concept to live fire in two weeks after producing about a dozen prototypes with additive manufacturing.
- To scale the approach, engineers created the Picatinny Common Lethality Integration Kit, a universal mount that lets small drones carry different lethal payloads.
- Officials frame the demo as a new way to hit hardened targets at low altitude with expendable systems that could ease logistics, though no fielding timeline is public.