The Army's $4.15 billion Domestic Shield counter-drone vehicle fits the small drone over a U.S. base. Only $50 million is funded, and its one Ukraine-tested interceptor flies at about half the speed of Russia's Geran-4.
Allen Control Systems' autonomous turret joins L-MADIS under a prototype agreement worth about $6.2 million, adding bullets to a counter-drone platform that has run on jamming.
At Operation Jailbreak, six firms wired a radar 'Hunter' and a gun-armed 'Killer' into one autonomous counter-drone kill chain in under a week, the Army's argument that it can integrate at software speed.
Allen Control Systems raised $200M at a $2.2B valuation to scale Bullfrog, an AI-aimed gun turret that shoots drones down with machine-gun rounds instead of missiles.