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
Fortem DroneHunter F700: The Autonomous Net-Catcher Closing the Jammer Gap
Fortem's DroneHunter F700 autonomously pursues hostile drones, fires tethered nets to capture them in flight, and tows the platform to a forensics zone — no explosives, no jamming. With 4,500+ captures, a Replicator 2 contract, and $25M from Lockheed Martin, it is the Pentagon's answer to GPS-waypoint threats that jammers cannot touch.
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Counter-UAS
Geofencing and No-Fly Zones Explained: How Drone Airspace Controls Actually Work
On January 13, 2025, DJI stopped blocking its drones from flying into restricted airspace—ending a decade of hard firmware locks. Here is what replaced them: the FAA airspace stack, Remote ID enforcement, and where every layer of the system breaks down.
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Leonidas Explained: How Epirus's High-Power Microwave System Kills Drone Swarms
Epirus's Leonidas achieved a 100% kill rate against 61 drones — including 49 in a single pulse — in a DoD demonstration. Here is how its solid-state GaN architecture works, what the Army and Marine Corps have bought, and where the technology stands today.
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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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How GPS Spoofing Hijacks Drones — and Why It's So Hard to Stop
GPS spoofing doesn't jam a drone's navigation — it replaces it. By feeding counterfeit satellite signals a receiver accepts as legitimate, an attacker can redirect an aircraft mid-flight without triggering a single alarm. Here's how the attack works and what defenses exist.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
