Counter-Drone News
Latest Counter-Drone news and analysis — 29 articles tagged Counter-Drone on The Robotics Media.
- Target Arm's Ralar 2 Turns HDT's Hunter WOLF UGV Into A Moving, Pilotless Drone Base — — Target Arm announced July 27 that its Ralar 2 launch-and-recovery arm now integrates with HDT Global's Hunter WOLF and WOLF-X unmanned ground vehicles...
- L3Harris And Shield AI Complete First Autonomous DiSCO+Hivemind EW Flight Test — — In a U.S. Army-supported live flight test, L3Harris's DiSCO battle-management system and Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy software teamed on the Green Wo...
- Kratos Wins ~$156M NNSA Contract To Field Mobile Counter-Drone Systems — — Kratos Defense secured a sole-source ~$156 million IDIQ contract from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration Office...
- MBDA Unveils Counter Mass Interceptor Against Drone Saturation At Farnborough — — MBDA has unveiled a low-cost 'Counter Mass Interceptor' at Farnborough 2026 to defeat swarms of Shahed-class drones. First variant targets small UAS w...
- Singularity Exits Stealth With $80M Series A At $400M For Low-Cost Air Defense — — Los Angeles-based defense startup Singularity emerged from stealth with an oversubscribed $80 million Series A at a $400 million valuation, led by Kho...
- Pentagon Awards AeroVironment $500M Layered Counter-Drone Contract Through 2029 — — The U.S. Army awarded AeroVironment a $500 million firm-fixed-price contract on July 1, 2026 to supply layered counter-unmanned aerial systems over th...
- CACI's SkyValor Moves To Full-Rate Production For US Southern Border Drone Defense — — The Department of War tapped CACI's SkyValor counter-UAS platform for deployment along the Southern Border, moving the transportable radar/RF/EO syste...
- Pentagon Awards $86M Laser Weapon Deals To Lockheed And nLIGHT — — The Department of War handed nLIGHT Defense and Lockheed Martin Aculight two OTA deals worth $86M under a $847M ceiling to build 150 kW containerized...
- Skapion Raises $36M Seed To Build Iron Dome For Drone Swarms — — Israeli-American startup Skapion emerged from stealth with a $36 million seed round co-led by Khosla Ventures and UP.Partners to scale a mobile counte...
- NATO Approves $40B Drone Edge Counter-Drone Initiative In Ankara — — NATO Allies committed more than $40 billion over five years to counter-drone defenses, drone procurement and operator training under the new Drone Edg...
- Innoviz And Givon Defense Team On LiDAR For Counter-Drone Systems — — Israeli firms Innoviz Technologies and Givon Defense have partnered to evaluate automotive-grade LiDAR as a precision-localization layer for counter-U...
- Pentagon Creates DRPM-UxS Drone Czar, Pulls Programs From Services — — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a June 29 memo creating the Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Unmanned Systems, a new office that will over...
- AeroVironment Books $80.5M Titan Task Order for Air Force Base Defense — — AeroVironment landed the first purchase order under its $500M Domestic Shield IDIQ, an $80.5M buy of Titan MS counter-UAS systems for Air Force Global...
- China Debuts Truck-Mounted EMALS Drone Catapult in First Public Test — — Beijing Institute of Technology released the first public video of a modular truck-mounted electromagnetic aircraft launch system firing a fixed-wing...
- Pentagon Awards AeroVironment $500M Counter-Drone Contract — — The Pentagon awarded AeroVironment a $500 million, three-year contract for commercial counter-UAS technology, days after the LOCUST laser maker posted...
- Innoviz LiDAR Joins Regulus to Sharpen Counter-Drone Defense — — Innoviz Technologies is integrating its automotive-grade LiDAR into Regulus counter-UAS systems, targeting low-altitude drone threats in dense, clutte...
- VisionWave Launches VARAN, a Stealthy Autonomous Ground Vehicle — — VisionWave has launched VARAN at Eurosatory 2026, an uncrewed ground vehicle designed to navigate GPS-denied, jammed battlefields using passive vision...
- Overland AI Wins $20M Marine Corps Robot Vehicle Deal for MADIS — — The U.S. Marine Corps awarded Seattle's Overland AI a roughly $20 million contract for unmanned ground vehicles and OverDrive autonomy software to bol...
- KNDS Unveils Containerized Drone Launcher Concept at Eurosatory 2026 — — KNDS revealed a 20-foot container that launches Helsing HX-2 strike drones and Tytan TI-1 METIS interceptors, fusing offense and local air defense in...
- Alpine Eagle, Origin Robotics Merge Sentinel And BLAZE Defenses — — Germany's Alpine Eagle and Latvia's Origin Robotics signed an MoU to integrate the BLAZE interceptor with the Sentinel architecture into a layered sen...