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
Border Task Force Logged 378 Drones in a Month, and Says 95-98% Are Scouting for Human Smugglers
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.
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Counter-UAS
Milrem Pitches an Unmanned Defence Line for NATO's Eastern Flank, With Counter-UAS at Its Core
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.
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Counter-UAS
At Yuma, NORTHCOM Ran Its Counter-Drone Test on Anduril's Lattice, Hosted by the Test Organization
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.
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Counter-UAS
Michigan's Camp Grayling Pitches Itself to Directed-Energy Developers as One of Four Army Industry Test Ranges
Michigan is inviting directed-energy developers to bring test requirements to Camp Grayling, whose 148,000-acre range and 60-mile drone corridor are offered to industry under the Army's Permissive Range Initiative.
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Counter-UAS
Marines Rush Anduril Jammers to Amphibious Combat Vehicles as NORTHCOM Tests Urban Counter-Drone Defense
The Marine Corps hand-picked Anduril for a $15.7M sole-source deal to arm its ACVs with Pulsar-L jammers, landing the same week NORTHCOM ran its fourth counter-drone exercise and previewed its first urban test.
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Counter-UAS
DHS Stands Up New PEO to Fast-Track Drone and Counter-Drone Buys, Seeking Cloud-Independent, Encrypted Small UAS
DHS's drone-focused program office has issued an RFI for small UAS that skip the cloud, run AES-256 encrypted links, and meet Blue/Green UAS standards, with industry answers due Oct. 5.
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Counter-UAS
Passive-Radar and Threat-Fusion Startups Expand on Both Sides of the Atlantic as Counter-Drone Demand Surges
Australia's Silentium Defence opens a US headquarters in North Carolina while three ex-Altitude Angel executives launch UK startup Wardyn Technologies, both chasing surging counter-drone demand.
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Counter-UAS
Cape Canaveral Races to Add Counter-Drone Defenses as Launch Tempo Surges
Space Force officials say Cape Canaveral is "top of the list" for new counter-drone gear within weeks, but a GAO report shows the service is short-staffed by 25% just as launch cadence climbs toward 1,000 a year.
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Counter-UAS
DroneShield Plugs AIM Defence's Fractl Laser Into DroneSentry, Giving Its RF-Sensing Stack a Hard-Kill Option
DroneShield has signed an MOU to make DroneSentry interoperable with AIM Defence's Fractl laser, adding a directed-energy effector by partnership. It is a roadmap, not a contract: no dollar value, schedule or customer has been announced.
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Counter-UAS
DroneShield Fields DroneSentry-X Mk2 on Army Infantry Squad Vehicles 80 Days After Award as JIATF-401 Pushes Rapid Counter-Drone Fielding
DroneShield says DroneSentry-X Mk2 reached initial operational capability on U.S. Army Infantry Squad Vehicles about 80 days after a JIATF-401 award, with three more units planned. Contract value, first-batch size and performance specifications were not disclosed.
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Counter-UAS
NATO Jets Down a Drone Over Lithuania in a First for the Baltic Nation
Italian Eurofighters flying NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission shot down an explosive-laden drone that crossed into Lithuania from Belarus, the first such intercept in Lithuanian airspace and the second Baltic shootdown in 30 days.
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Counter-UAS
Águila Alta: Mexico's Anti-Drone Pact Delivers Zero Results
Three weeks into the joint US-Mexico Águila Alta counter-drone operation at the Tijuana border, Mexico has intercepted zero cartel drones while US forces have downed over 300 this year alone.
