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Counter-UAS
DroneDNA and Sensor Fusion: Inside Dedrone’s Airspace Security Platform
Dedrone, now a division of Axon after a 2024 acquisition, has spent a decade building passive RF detection infrastructure deployed at military bases, airports, stadiums, and prisons across six G7 governments. Understanding where detection ends and the legal wall against mitigation begins is essential context for the C-UAS market.
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Counter-UAS
What a Seized Drone Tells Investigators — and What It Doesn’t
From encrypted GPS logs and chip-off hardware extraction to battlefield component teardowns linking Shahed drones to U.S. suppliers, drone forensics has become a critical investigative discipline — one still building its standards as the threat accelerates.
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Counter-UAS
DroneGun-Class Jammers: How Handheld RF Disruptors Work — and Who Can Legally Use Them
Handheld RF jammers like DroneShield's DroneGun Mk4 can force a drone into a controlled landing — a capability Ukraine has deployed by the thousands against Russian FPV attacks. In the United States, federal statute locks this technology behind a short list of federal agencies.
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Counter-UAS
Fortem DroneHunter F700: The Autonomous Net-Catcher Closing the Jammer Gap
Fortem's DroneHunter F700 autonomously pursues hostile drones, fires tethered nets to capture them in flight, and tows the platform to a forensics zone — no explosives, no jamming. With 4,500+ captures, a Replicator 2 contract, and $25M from Lockheed Martin, it is the Pentagon's answer to GPS-waypoint threats that jammers cannot touch.
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Counter-UAS
Geofencing and No-Fly Zones Explained: How Drone Airspace Controls Actually Work
On January 13, 2025, DJI stopped blocking its drones from flying into restricted airspace—ending a decade of hard firmware locks. Here is what replaced them: the FAA airspace stack, Remote ID enforcement, and where every layer of the system breaks down.
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Counter-UAS
Leonidas Explained: How Epirus's High-Power Microwave System Kills Drone Swarms
Epirus's Leonidas achieved a 100% kill rate against 61 drones — including 49 in a single pulse — in a DoD demonstration. Here is how its solid-state GaN architecture works, what the Army and Marine Corps have bought, and where the technology stands today.
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Industry & Contracts
AeroVironment: How a Glider Champion Built America's Tactical Drone Empire
From Paul MacCready's human-powered aircraft to a $990 million Switchblade contract and a $4.1 billion BlueHalo merger, AeroVironment has quietly become the backbone of U.S. tactical UAS — and is now reshaping itself into a multi-domain defense-tech mid-prime.
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Industry & Contracts
Anduril Industries: The Software Company Rebuilding the Defense Industrial Base
Founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey and four co-founders, Anduril Industries has grown from a border-surveillance startup into a $30.5 billion defense technology company producing autonomous systems across air, sea, and ground domains on its Lattice AI platform.
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Industry & Contracts
Baykar: How a Turkish Family Firm Cornered the Global UCAV Export Market
Turkey's Baykar — family-owned, Istanbul-based — built the Bayraktar TB2 from a domestic-independence program into a combat-proven juggernaut with 1.25 million flight hours, agreements with 36 countries, and an estimated 65 percent share of the global UCAV export market.
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Industry & Contracts
DJI Dominates the Drone Market — And Washington Wants It Out
DJI controls over 70% of the global commercial drone market and 90% of consumer sales, yet faces an effective US ban after a cascade of legislative and regulatory actions. Six independent audits have found no evidence of covert data exfiltration — but the structural debate is far from resolved.
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Industry & Contracts
DroneShield: The Counter-UAS Company Redefining Drone Defense at Scale
From a 2014 Virginia startup to an ASX200-listed company with 4,000+ systems deployed in 70 nations, DroneShield has built the counter-UAS industry’s most comprehensive product line—and is now betting that software subscriptions, not hardware sales, define its next decade.
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Industry & Contracts
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems: The Company That Built the Armed Drone Era
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is the private, family-controlled company that built the Predator, Reaper, and Gray Eagle — and is now in production on the FQ-42A, one of the first uncrewed aircraft to carry a fighter designation in U.S. military history.
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