Counter-UAS news from UASFeed — drone detection, jamming, interceptors, directed energy, and the race to defend bases, airports, and infrastructure from hostile drones.
The Marine Corps has awarded Epirus roughly $11 million for HAVOC, an autonomy-enabled evolution of the ExDECS high-power microwave prototype — a sled-mounted swarm-killer built to fight alongside MADIS, with the company already able to build about one system per week.
Read the story →DHS split a five-year, up to $1.5 billion department-wide counter-UAS contract into two tracks, naming Anduril, BAE Systems, CACI, Leidos and eight other firms as awardees after fielding more than 100 competing proposals.
Facing $35K-$50K enemy drones downed by $1-4M interceptors, the Army is fielding a new automated fire-control system called Gunslinger and soliciting a sub-$150K missile that must fit existing Coyote launchers.
The Army's DEVCOM C5ISR Center ran its first 'Warden' assessment at Fort A.P. Hill, pitting 17 vendors' lasers, jammers and interceptor drones against 12+ UAS types including swarms.
Washington's 10th Civil Support Team has completed training on a mobile Anduril counter-UAS rig that fuses camera, RF and AI sensors — and it's headed for Super Bowl and FIFA World Cup security duty.
CENTCOM says it struck dozens of IRGC targets — including drone and missile factories — in a two-hour "heavy wave" on July 29-30, retaliation for an Iranian ballistic-missile attack that was fully intercepted the night before.
AeroVironment and Teledyne FLIR Defense unveiled the ARGUS-XL multi-sensor counter-drone platform on July 29, 2026, fusing radar, EO/IR and command-and-control software to protect US installations under the Air Force-led JIATF-401 Domestic Shield program.
Twelve days after closing on a $2.3 million Bridgeport, Connecticut plant, Quantum Cyber says it has already assembled its first mini-interceptor — a 220 km/h counter-UAS drone meant to hunt in swarms.
JIATF 401, the Army-led counter-UAS task force stood up last fall, has released a first-principles handbook aimed at giving the military, agencies, industry and academia a shared vocabulary and layered-defense framework for fighting small drones.
Over July 24-26, 2026, Romania destroyed three drones that breached its airspace on consecutive days - its first successful intercepts since Russia's 2022 invasion, enabled by a 2025 law authorizing engagement of trespassing UAS.
At Farnborough, MARSS — acquired by Australia's Electro Optic Systems in June — said its NiDAR C2 software and Interceptor MR effector have engaged 'mostly Shahed' Iranian attack drones in the Middle East, capping a rapid EOS counter-drone build-out.
A Wright-Patterson RFI for a transportable launcher that kills cruise missiles and Group 1-5 drones lands the same week the Air Force details new 20-Airman Point Defense Flights trained at Fort Sill — backed by $51.8M in FY26 SUADS buys and a $1.4B FY27 ABADS request.
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