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Technologies and weapons used to detect and destroy small uncrewed aerial threats, including gun-based interceptors, lasers, and missile systems.
Forterra and Hypercraft showed a driverless vehicle with a 4,000-pound payload and an anti-drone shotgun at AUSA, but announced no customer, contract or price. Until someone signs, the evidence a buyer can use belongs to parts already tested or contracted on military trucks.
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US military officials logged 378 cartel drone detections at the southern border in the past month, a rise they partly credit to having more sensors in place. That leaves the monthly count a weak measure of whether cartels are actually flying more drones.
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Friedrich Merz took 10 defense and energy executives to Kyiv as Berlin prepared to unveil about 1bn euros in military aid and 350m euros for energy repair. How much of that money turns into orders for German or other European suppliers depends on terms that have not yet been published.
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Digital Force Technologies won a $500 million IDIQ from Joint Interagency Task Force 401 for counter-drone systems run by its SeraphimOS edge software. By DFT's account the software classifies threats on its own, so base-defense teams end up trusting its judgement over any one sensor's.
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JIATF-401, the US counter-drone task force, announced enterprise contracts with a combined ceiling of nearly $7 billion for a mix of technologies. The choice of which system to field now falls to the units and agencies that will order through them.
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Bullfrog uses computer vision to hold the aim while a gun already in service does the firing. ACS is opening an Austin plant to build more of them for the Army, the Navy and now the Marine Corps.
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The round is led by Vsquared, but the interesting cheque is Florian Seibel's personal one, sitting beside a corporate stake from Quantum Systems in a laser the reporting says may one day compete with its own products.
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AeroVironment's $464.8m Enduring-HEL award covers dozens of 30-kilowatt LOCUST X3 units. The step that made the purchase possible was a Department of War safety agreement with the FAA, signed before anyone fired.
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AeroVironment's two 20kW-class LOCUST prototypes cleared government acceptance testing at Yuma and went through new equipment training at Fort Sill, which finally gives counter-drone planners a delivered mobile system to price against interceptors.
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At Project Convergence-Capstone 6 the two firms swapped a payload rather than build a vehicle, which was the cheap part. The cost of keeping a forward robot running and getting it back is still unpublished.
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Powerus has been commissioned to wire sensors around Middle East oil and gas fields. The deal detects and classifies; it does not intercept, and nobody has said how many sites it covers.
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The 3rd Armored Brigade's 3,500 soldiers had electronic warfare and counter-UAS equipment at the exercise in Germany. A Ukrainian drone regiment destroyed them, which prices the fix per vehicle.
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A $200 million round, two planned plants and revenue going from about $10 million to "low nine figures" put anti-drone hardware in the manufacturing bucket, not the science bucket.
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