Counter-UAS news from UASFeed — drone detection, jamming, interceptors, directed energy, and the race to defend bases, airports, and infrastructure from hostile drones.
At Land Forces 2026 in Perth, Thales Australia put its RapidStriker counter-UAS system and STARK's 100 km Cascade loitering munition on a Bushmaster Dual Cab. The concept is sound, but every performance figure so far comes from the companies, and STARK's 2025 trial record gives reason for caution.
Read the story →Northrop Grumman's guided 50mm Raid Hunter round targets US$3,000-7,000 a shot, Rheinmetall and Praetorian put 20+ interceptors in a shipping container, EOS moves Slinger production to Alabama, and Kolarms pitches a full C-UAV package: one week of reveals, one theme, the cost of a kill.
Seventh Air Force wants combat-proven, theater-wide counter-drone systems for South Korea under 'Project Iron Sentry.' The RFI arrives weeks after Air Force leaders said they would stand up a point defense weapon system, a new career field and possibly a dedicated acquisition executive.
The FBI says counter-drone personnel are working the Oct. 3-11 Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta under the SAFER SKIES Act, but the FAA NOTAMs behind its 4-mile no drone zone apply only two daily windows, about 5:30 am-noon and 4-8 pm Mountain.
The Pentagon has picked four lasers and a microwave weapon for a year-long JIATF-401 pilot on U.S. bases, where service members will run them. The goal is to learn what directed energy really costs to operate before a December shoot-off at Dugway.
Kongsberg will supply Oshkosh Defense Europe with PROTECTOR RS4 weapon stations carrying its PROTECTOR CUAS software for Dutch JLTVs. Counter-drone capability is arriving as a software layer on hardware the Netherlands was already buying.
Utah's Fortem Technologies closed a $50M Series B led by Lockheed Martin, which put in $25M in April, to expand Lindon manufacturing and SkyDome deployments as it cites DHS, Army and World Cup work.
JIATF-401 and the Army issued 10 counter-UAS IDIQs with a $4.15B combined ceiling for Domestic Shield, but only about $50M was obligated at award as year-end demand pushes commitments past $5B of a $7B ceiling.
JTF-Southern Border's commander says 95-98% of drone activity on the southern border is reconnaissance supporting human trafficking. The task force logged at least 378 drones in a month, but officials did not explain how they tie the flights to smuggling.
Milrem Robotics wants robots to hold NATO's eastern border: a proposed 3,500 km unmanned defence line from Finland to Poland, built around UGVs, ARCOS command software and counter-UAS. It is a proposal and demonstrator, not a contracted program.
NORTHCOM's fourth Falcon Peak exercise at Yuma Proving Ground ran at least 20 vendors through border-focused counter-drone tests, the first with Anduril's Lattice as the baseline and the test organization hosting it.
Camp Grayling's 148,000-acre range and 60-mile drone corridor are becoming a primary U.S. proving ground for directed-energy counter-UAS systems under the Army's Permissive Range Initiative.
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