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Counter-UAS covers technologies and programs that detect, track, and neutralize small drones, using sensors, jamming, or kinetic interceptors.
Cape Canaveral's counter-drone capability will come from a Pentagon task force that selects and fields it, while the station supplies the integration and the shift crews it is still asking the Air Force to provide.
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Perseus says each Mk-III costs about $2,500 to build, a fortieth of the price of the missiles militaries have fired at cheap drones. The figure a buyer writing a requirement needs is the cost per interception.
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Hanwha and Lockheed Martin UK swapped the Redback's 30mm cannon for a CTA International 40mm and put an air defence command system inside the turret, and the two firms say they are pursuing NATO and allied customers.
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AB Swiftstrike AI is folding AEye's STRATOS lidar into its autonomous counter-drone platform to see aircraft that stay off the air, on the strength of a detection range AEye states for objects at 0.93 miles.
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The Twinvis air picture was fused into Rheinmetall's Skymaster over Link 16 while Skymaster directed a Skynex battery, which makes emitter-free detection specifiable, though the release never says a passive track cued a shot.
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San Francisco's Mara raised $7 million for a tube-launched interceptor weighing 250 grams, on the argument that fiber-spooled and self-navigating FPV drones have made jamming unreliable enough that buyers now shop on cost per kill.
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A government test used the SGT STOUT package on a Stryker's existing hardware to defeat simulated Group 1 and Group 2 targets. The procurement implication is the interesting part.
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ThinKom's Alecto contract funds one of four prototypes, with field testing in 2027. The hard requirement is not the microwave itself, it is engaging drones without halting the vehicle.
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