Pentagon's JIATF 401 Trains Secret Service and Air Force on Bumblebee V2 and Paladin Drone Interceptors

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 trained personnel from the US Air Force’s 6th Security Forces Squadron and the Secret Service on the Bumblebee V2 and Paladin counter-drone interceptors at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, in October 2026. Perennial Autonomy’s Bumblebee V2 is a first-person-view multirotor designed to defeat a drone by colliding with it, while the Paladin uses a net-based interception system. The joint training gave personnel from a military installation and a federal protective agency practice with two different interception methods for defending critical facilities and infrastructure.