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Counter-UAS
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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Counter-UAS
France Selects Origin Robotics' BLAZE Interceptor and Brings Production Home
France's DGA has chosen Latvia's Origin Robotics BLAZE autonomous interceptor for its armed forces, with French integrator DSV establishing local assembly under a technology transfer deal — making France the fourth European operator of the combat-proven C-UAS system.
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Counter-UAS
Listening for Drones: How Acoustic Detection Works — and Where It Falls Short
Acoustic microphone arrays can detect drones by their blade-passing frequencies from hundreds of meters away using beamforming and AI classification. Ukraine's 24,000-sensor network shows what the technology can do at scale — and reveals the hard limits of listening alone.
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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
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
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.
