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Layered Counter-UAS Defense: How the Kill Chain Actually Works
From Langley's 17 nights of unidentified drones to the Navy's billion-dollar Red Sea munitions bill, the pressure to build coherent counter-drone architecture has never been higher. Here is how the layers — detect, identify, decide, defeat — actually work, what each one costs, and why none of them works alone.
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French Rafale Shoots Down Drone Over Latvia — NATO's Second Intercept in Three Weeks
A French Air and Space Force Rafale operating from Lithuania downed a drone over eastern Latvia on June 8, the second confirmed NATO intercept over allied territory in roughly three weeks, sharpening a debate over whether rotating fighters alone can hold the eastern flank.
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THORIS: Rohde & Schwarz and TRUMPF Build a Jam-Then-Lase C-UAS Escalation Ladder
Rohde & Schwarz and TRUMPF unveiled THORIS at ILA Berlin 2026 — a modular counter-UAS system that sequences RF jamming and high-energy laser defeat on a single C2 stack, with full vehicle integration targeting a 2028 market entry.
