The Pentagon Has Deployed Counter-Drone Systems to New Jersey

"That will be a combination of active and passive detection capabilities as well as some capability counter UAS capabilities which would include non kinetic types of systems like drone busters which essentially disrupts signals and affects the ability of these systems to fly."

During U.S. Pentagon press briefing, Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder stated that "anti-drone systems," have been deployed in New Jersey.

Stripes.com reports:
The Pentagon has shipped anti-drone technology to an area of New Jersey located where sightings of mysterious aircraft have set residents on edge and drawn accusations that the federal government isn’t taking the incidents seriously.

The Defense Department provided equipment capable of detecting drones and disabling them, Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder said at a briefing on Thursday. He added that the equipment includes a system called DroneBuster, a hand-held jammer used by the Army and Marines.

“The majority of that capability has deployed, the rest should be arriving very shortly, if not imminently,” Ryder said. He had said earlier that much of the equipment would be sent to Picatinny Arsenal, a military research and production facility in Morris County. Ryder has said the government had no involvement in the drone flights, which have confounded officials in New York and New Jersey and prompted arguments that the Biden administration wasn’t doing enough or taking the matter seriously.

Most of the aircraft, he has said, are most likely commercial or hobbyist drones. On Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily banned drone flights over nearly two dozen areas of New Jersey. The reports reports include nighttime sightings of drones as large as 6 feet in diameter that “operate in a coordinated manner” and travel with their lights switched off, Dawn Fantasia, a New Jersey assemblywoman, posted to X last week after being briefed by local law enforcement. Witnesses have said they’ve seen several low-hanging drones at once in the night sky, some of which hover in one spot.