Counter-UAS
Counter-UAS news from UASFeed — drone detection, jamming, interceptors, directed energy, and the race to defend bases, airports, and infrastructure from hostile drones.
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Counter-UAS
A Prohibited Zone Goes Live-Fire Ready: Secret Service Counter-Drone Teams Guard the Mall's First-Ever NSSE July 4
For America 250, the National Mall fireworks earned National Special Security Event status for the first time — putting Secret Service counter-drone teams, the FBI, and the National Guard over 150,000 people inside an airspace that has been off-limits for half a century.
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'Airspace Under Pressure': DroneShield Survey Finds 70% of Operators Can't Reliably Detect Drones — and 60% Can't Legally Stop Them
A DroneShield survey of 23 airport and critical-infrastructure operators finds 70% cite detection gaps and 60% lack the legal authority to mitigate drone threats — quantifying the two failures behind Gatwick-style shutdowns.
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United 737 Came Within 100 Feet of a Drone on Newark Approach — and the FAA Has No Way to Stop the Next One
A United 737 with 111 aboard reported a drone about 100 feet below it on final to Newark on June 27; a second crew saw another. The FAA opened a probe — but civil airports still have no authority to detect or down drones.
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Eurosatory's Counter-Drone Effector Wave: A 4kW Pulsed Laser, a Microwave Gun, and a Passive-RF 'Cocktail' Built to Kill the FPV Threat
Fresh Eurosatory 2026 coverage shows the counter-UAS market converging on layered effectors: Esh-Tech's ~4kW DroneLight pulsed laser, Ecliptic's ANTIGONI microwave weapon, and a Lacroix/Bertin/MC2 passive-RF-plus-optical vehicle system — the same architecture the U.S. Army is buying through its expanding C-UAS Marketplace.
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Munich's Tytan to Build 3,000 Interceptor Drones a Month, Claims Air Defense '200 Times Cheaper'
Munich startup Tytan Technologies is opening a German factory to build 3,000 autonomous interceptor drones a month from August 2026, with combat-proven EOS and METIS systems and a CEO claim of air defense 200 times cheaper than legacy hardware.
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Army Repurposes 'Gunslinger,' a Cancelled Helicopter's Fire-Control Brain, to Shoot Down Drones on the Move
The Army's DEVCOM Armaments Center adapted 'Gunslinger' fire control—built for the cancelled FARA helicopter—so a common Remote Operated Weapon Station can engage small drones while shooting on the move, demonstrated in April at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
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Lithuania's Granta Autonomy Unveils 'Black Wasp,' a 320 km/h AI Interceptor Built to Hunt Shaheds
Granta Autonomy's Black Wasp is a 4 kg, 320 km/h AI-guided interceptor built to chase and kill Shahed-136s and other strike drones, using jamming-resilient ML navigation and onboard computer vision cued by NATO air-defense radar.
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DroneShield Builds Its First Counter-Drone System in Europe as the Sovereignty Race Accelerates
DroneShield says it has completed its first counter-UAS system built in Europe rather than Australia, using contract manufacturing and a primarily European supply chain to chase the EU's growing demand for sovereign C-UAS capability.
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Army's SWAT-FC Software Lets Moving Vehicles Kill Drones in Live-Fire Test
Picatinny Arsenal has demonstrated SWAT-FC, autonomous fire-control software integrated with the CROWS weapon station that allows vehicle-mounted systems to engage and destroy small drones while both platform and target are in motion — eliminating the halt requirement that has long plagued vehicle-based counter-UAS.
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Netherlands Signs Letter of Intent to Join US Army C-UAS Marketplace at Eurosatory 2026
The Netherlands signed a letter of intent to join the US Army's UAS and Counter-UAS Marketplace Initiative at Eurosatory in Paris, one of nine nations to do so at the June 16 signing ceremony, gaining a path toward access to a validated, interoperable pool of drone and counter-drone systems managed by Joint Interagency Task Force 401.
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World Cup C-UAS Crackdown: 39 Drones Seized, Criminal Charges in First Six Days
Multi-agency federal operations across 8 U.S. host cities logged 145 drone incursions and seized 39 aircraft in the first six days of FIFA World Cup 2026, with criminal charges — including an illegal-reentry case in Atlanta — marking early serious enforcement outcomes.
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Counter-UAS at Airports: Why the U.S. Still Can't Stop a Gatwick-Style Closure
The 2018 Gatwick drone incident cost airlines £50 million and stranded 110,000 passengers — and the perpetrators were never found. Five years on, U.S. airports face hundreds of incursions annually while the FAA still cannot neutralize a drone on its own. Here's how the technology and authority fit together.
