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
Net Capture Systems: The Case for Catching Drones Instead of Destroying Them
Kinetic destruction and RF jamming both carry unacceptable collateral risks in civilian airspace. A new generation of net-capture systems — compressed-air launchers and autonomous interceptor hexacopters — offers a low-debris, forensics-preserving alternative built for populated environments.
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Counter-UAS
How Drone Detection Actually Works: Radar, RF, EO/IR, and the Fusion Stack
No single sensor can catch every drone. Here is how radar, RF analyzers, electro-optical/infrared cameras, and acoustic arrays each cover different gaps — and why military and federal planners are betting on layered fusion architectures to close them.
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Counter-UAS
Golden Dome Explained: The $1.2 Trillion Bet on Space-Based Missile Defense
Trump's Golden Dome extends U.S. homeland missile defense from rogue-state ICBMs to cruise missiles and drones — but a CBO projection of $1.2 trillion over 20 years, driven by a 7,800-satellite constellation that can only engage 10 missiles at once, exposes a gap between strategic ambition and reality.
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Counter-UAS
Shotgun vs. Sniper Rifle: How HPM and Laser C-UAS Weapons Actually Work
Two directed-energy technologies are competing to replace the $2-million missile shot against $500 drones — high-power microwave systems that blanket swarms in a single burst, and high-energy lasers that burn targets one at a time. The physics of each determines where they win and where they fail.
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Counter-UAS
NATO's Drone Wall: How Europe Is Building a 2,000-Kilometer Counter-UAS Barrier
After Russian surveillance drones crossed into Polish airspace in September 2025, NATO launched Operation Eastern Sentry and the EU accelerated plans for a 2,000-km integrated counter-drone corridor. Here's how the technology, politics, and money actually stack up.
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Counter-UAS
JIATF-401 Validates CACI SkyValor for Joint-Force-Wide Deployment After Yuma Border Testing
After a two-day live evaluation at MCAS Yuma announced June 7 with Joint Task Force-Southern Border and CBP, the Pentagon's consolidated C-UAS task force cleared CACI's SkyValor system for deployment at any U.S. military installation worldwide — not just the southern border.
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Counter-UAS
Drone Jamming Explained: How It Works, Who Can Do It, and Where It Fails
Electronic jamming neutralizes more drones in Ukraine than any other method — roughly 10,000 per month — yet the newest generation of fiber-optic and AI-navigation drones is immune to it. A technical and legal primer on the RF physics, the US arsenal, and why civilians and companies have zero legal authority to jam.
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Counter-UAS
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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Counter-UAS
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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Counter-UAS
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.
