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
The Counter-Drone Drone That Caught Fire: An NYPD Skydio X10 Falls Into a World Cup Crowd in Brooklyn
An NYPD Skydio X10 malfunctioned and burned near the FIFA World Cup Fan Zone in Brooklyn Bridge Park on a match night — inside an FAA No Drone Zone where a civilian would face six-figure penalties. It was the second NYPD drone to catch fire in Brooklyn in 13 months.
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Counter-UAS
AeroVironment Wins $500M Army Deal to Buy Commercial Counter-Drone Tech at Scale
The Army has handed AeroVironment a $500M, three-year ordering vehicle to buy layered commercial counter-UAS gear against Group 1-3 drones — a shift from bespoke buys toward a standing anti-drone pipeline.
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Echodyne Bets Big on the Counter-Drone Boom With a $40M Radar Plant
Echodyne is opening a $40M plant near Seattle in July to build at least 30,000 counter-UAS radars a year — a roughly five-fold jump — because orders are outrunning production across the counter-drone market.
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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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Counter-UAS
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.
