Several experimental batteries of AI robotic gun turrets are already guarding Ukrainian energy sites, the deputy commander-in-chief says, at $35,000 to $160,000 a turret against interceptors that cost far more.
CACI's SkyValor is a long-range, autonomous counter-drone system that defeats UAS without gunfire, jamming their links and firing nets to capture them intact. The Pentagon validated it for use across the entire US Joint Force in June 2026 after a southern-border test.
A new IISS report maps a covert, sea-launched drone campaign against Europe's rear. Brussels answered the same week with a five-project "drone wall" a fraction of the size of the problem it describes.
I-SEE is betting that letting frontline units rewrite their own counter-drone software, in days rather than months, is how battlefield defenses keep pace with a threat that mutates nightly.
The largest land-warfare show in history opened in Paris on June 15 with the Ukraine war's lessons, cheap mass, autonomy and counter-drone, as the organizing logic of the floor. The clearest signal is who is now selling.
Anduril's CEO is pressing Washington to let allies build US weapons, not just buy them. The same week, the Pentagon walled 65 more Chinese firms out of its defense base. The drone war's real front is now the control list.
A southern-border test validated CACI's net-and-jam system for the entire US military, the latest move in a counter-drone scramble shaped by the drone war in Ukraine and by hostile drones now killing American troops.
The Cold War-vintage twin-35 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun revived as Ukraine's cost-effective counter to massed Shahed drone attacks, and the weapon system that forced Western armies to rethink short-range air defense.
Alta Ares, a Franco-Ukrainian maker of AI drone interceptors used in Ukraine, raised €50 million to scale production as demand for cheap air defense climbs.
Ukraine says it has strung 822 km of anti-drone netting over frontline roads this year, doubling its pace to keep supply and evacuation traffic alive under the FPV threat.
The State Department's $1.98 billion approval puts Anduril's electronic and kinetic drone defenses in the Gulf days after an Iranian drone hit Kuwait's main airport.
Ukraine's military has fielded an AI-controlled turret in more than ten units to shoot down the fiber-optic drones that electronic warfare cannot jam, the Defense Ministry says.
The Stryker family of wheeled 8×8 armored vehicles — the backbone of US Army Stryker Brigade Combat Teams, fielded since 2002 and exported to Ukraine, with variants from base troop carrier to 30 mm Dragoon and counter-drone directed-energy platforms.
Motorola is paying $1.5 billion for a counter-drone firm whose RF takeover seizes a drone's control link, the same link Ukraine's fiber-optic drones are built to fly without.