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Anduril Pulsar
Anduril Pulsar is a family of software-defined electromagnetic warfare systems intended to detect, classify and counter changing radio-frequency threats across fixed-site, vehicle, airborne and portable configurations.
A photographed Chinese Type 19-based vehicle combines a cannon with an apparent counter-drone laser. Its service status and performance remain unconfirmed.
Anduril Pulsar is a family of software-defined electromagnetic warfare systems intended to detect, classify and counter changing radio-frequency threats across fixed-site, vehicle, airborne and portable configurations.
The WINFLY Spider is a reusable Ukrainian interceptor UAV that catches hostile drones with a replaceable net, offering a low-cost alternative to expendable ramming interceptors.
Raid Hunter is Northrop Grumman's developmental 50 mm gun-based air-defense system, combining precision-guided ammunition, a Bushmaster Chain Gun and networked fire control against massed drones and cruise missiles.
Khyzhak is a Ukrainian AI-assisted, stabilized remote weapon station that uses a 7.62 mm PKT machine gun to engage FPV, fiber-optic and Shahed-type drones from ground, maritime and aviation platforms.
A US programme to develop tactical, containerised 500 kW laser weapons for defeating cruise missiles and uncrewed aerial systems.
Epirus Leonidas is a short-range, solid-state high-power microwave weapon designed to disable groups and swarms of uncrewed aircraft through one-to-many electronic attack.
The Army's first production contract for a laser weapon puts a 30-kilowatt drone killer on tactical vehicles while the Iran war drains Patriot and THAAD stocks.
A shoulder-fired infrared missile that Russia now launches from helicopters to hunt Ukrainian drones — and bolts to Shahed airframes so the drone can shoot back at the aircraft sent to intercept it.
A 1976 Soviet missile system built to shoot down low-flying jets, now hunting Lancets and Hornets. Its infrared seeker was never designed to find something the size of a quadcopter — which is why Ukraine bolted an electro-optical sight to nine of them.
A 1965 Soviet anti-aircraft gun built to shoot down jets, now one of the cheapest ways Ukraine kills Shahed drones. Sixteen modernised Shilkas funded by a charity recorded their first Shahed shootdowns in December 2025.
Russia's radar-cued hard-kill tank shield, and the first serial Russian active protection system credited with shooting down FPV drones. In its combat debut one tank killed seven drones, then ran out of ammunition and died.
Russia's answer to Starlink is not a jammer. Kalinka listens for the uplink a terminal sends to the satellite and works out where the operator is sitting — turning a communications link into a targeting cue.
Britain took ASRAAM missiles awaiting disposal, bolted them to launch rails cut from retired Tornado, Hawk and Jaguar jets, and welded the result to a Supacat truck. The improvisation has claimed over 400 aerial targets in Ukraine.
A British air-defence system inside a shipping container that fires Ukraine's own Soviet-era R-73 air-to-air missiles from salvaged fighter launch rails — built because Ukraine had missiles it could not launch and targets it could not reach.
Ukraine's first domestically built jet-powered interceptor drone, codified in August 2026 to close the speed gap that Russia's turbojet Geran-4 and Geran-5 opened over the cheap propeller interceptors that had been beating the Shahed.
The Army's autonomous breaching package finished two weeks of live fire at Fort Bragg built almost entirely from small-vendor hardware, and goes to Fort Irwin in October.
Counter-drone demand is producing revenue, but DroneShield's order book thins sharply after this year while its expanded cost base weighs on profit.
Mara closed a $7 million pre-seed for Spike, a counter-drone system built around a 250-gram autonomous interceptor priced to beat the FPV drones now driving most combat casualties.
Vectus packages layered defenses and autonomy software used in Ukraine into a managed service for governments and critical infrastructure operators.
Investors bet $3.4 billion on Monday that cheap interceptor missiles win the counter-drone war. The same week, the Pentagon capped what it will pay for them and funded two rival ways of killing drones.
Lockheed Martin's GRIZZLY is a containerized missile launcher, tested in June 2026 firing a JAGM to intercept a Group 3 attack drone at Yuma, that fuses Lockheed's Sanctum battle-management software and Fortem R-40 radars into one counter-drone kill chain.
The Yartura Dancer 4.5.0 is a Ukrainian fixed-wing interceptor drone that reaches 450 km/h and uses an AI homing system to re-attack a target drone until it is destroyed — built against the fast jet-powered variants of Russia's Shahed/Geran family.
The Overland AI ULTRA is a purpose-built, fully autonomous American uncrewed ground vehicle pairing the DARPA RACER-derived OverDrive autonomy stack with a modular light platform — the subject of the US Marine Corps' first production buy of autonomous ground vehicles.
Iron Wasp is a vehicle-mounted hard-kill counter-drone interceptor from Rafael and SpearUAV: a capsule-launched interceptor drone, derived from SpearUAV's Viper I, that lets armored vehicles physically destroy FPV drones and loitering munitions while on the move.
The loitering-munition maker's entry into JIATF-401's Domestic Shield program turns a record quarter into a foothold in homeland counter-drone defense.
Shipovnik-Aero is a Russian truck-mounted electronic-warfare complex built to detect, jam, spoof and reportedly hijack small UAVs, with wider communications-suppression functions.
Fortem's DroneHunter F700 is a reusable, autonomous counter-UAS interceptor that captures hostile drones with nets instead of destroying them with explosives.
Alta Ares is France's big-funded counter-drone startup — two years old, it raised a €50M Series A on AI guidance "combat-proven over Ukraine." It builds the anti-Shahed X-Lock and turbojet Black Bird interceptors; its Pixel Lock software is the claimed edge, though its record is self-reported.
BLAZE is the order-first entry in Europe's counter-drone wave — a radar-guided, NATO-codified interceptor drone from Latvia's Origin Robotics that flies a radar vector onto a Shahed, then finishes with AI vision. Built on a tiny ~€4M budget, it's fielded by four NATO states and picked by France.
Korkut is Türkiye's twin-35mm radar-directed anti-aircraft gun — the gun rung of the "Steel Dome" ladder below the Hisar and Siper missiles. Firing airburst rounds that throw a cone of tungsten pellets, it's the Turkish gun answer to cheap drones, like the Gepard and Skynex.
Nordic Air Defence is the smallest, cheapest, most software-first bet in Europe's counter-drone wave — a Swedish startup whose one-pound Kreuger-100XR dart loiters, then rams or blasts a Shahed for a few thousand dollars. The least-proven name in the field: no combat record, pre-production.
Alpine Eagle is the airborne outlier of Europe's counter-drone wave — a Munich startup whose Sentinel system puts the whole kill chain in the sky: a reusable "mothership" drone that flies high, carries interceptor drones, and hunts hostile drones from above rather than from a ground launcher.
APKWS is the cheap precision kit that turns a dumb 70mm rocket into a laser-guided munition — the ~$25,000 round underneath VAMPIRE, the OA-1K, and F-16s shooting down Shaheds over the Red Sea. Not a missile, but a guidance section that clips into rockets the fleet already carries.
The Frankenburg Mark 1 is Estonia's baguette-sized interceptor missile — a ~60 cm, ~$50,000 guided rocket built by a startup to shoot down Shahed drones for a tenth the cost of a legacy SAM. The missile-class answer, distinct from FPV interceptor drones, in Europe's counter-drone wave.
Merops is the Ukraine-proven interceptor drone the US Army bought ~13,000 of — an Eric Schmidt-funded, AI-guided fixed-wing drone that homes on Shaheds when jammed, rams them for ~$15,000 a shot, and recovers by parachute if it misses. The interceptor economy crossing the Atlantic.
General Cherry is Ukraine's scale-first interceptor maker — the for-profit rival to Wild Hornets, building a layered counter-drone catalog (AIR, Bullet, OPTIX) at a claimed 50,000+ drones a month, ranked #1 in kills, NATO-certified, and opening production lines in the US and Croatia.
The Octopus is Ukraine's state-designed interceptor drone — a ~$3,000 machine-vision quadcopter that homes autonomously onto Shahed drones. Ukraine ordered 8,000, and it became the first Ukrainian combat drone licensed for production inside a NATO country, built in Britain under Project OCTOPUS.
The Sting is Ukraine's flagship interceptor drone — a sub-$2,000 3D-printed FPV quadcopter from the non-profit Wild Hornets that hunts Shahed attack drones by the thousands, downed the first jet-powered Geran, and can be flown from 2,000 km away. Cheap-mass air defense answering cheap-mass attack.
Tytan is the German flagship of Europe's interceptor-drone wave — AI hit-to-kill drones (fixed-wing METIS, multicopter EOS) combat-used in Ukraine, under a Bundeswehr contract, with a NATO Innovation Fund-backed Series A and a factory scaling to 3,000 a month.
VAMPIRE is L3Harris's bolt-on counter-drone kit — a four-round laser-guided rocket launcher and sensor that turns any pickup into a Shahed-killer for about $25,000 a shot. Fielded in Ukraine since 2023, it downed its first Shahed that December; the US Army bought in for up to $106M in 2026.
The Embraer A-29 Super Tucano is the world's default light-attack aircraft — a $1,000-per-hour turboprop with 60,000 combat hours from Colombia's FARC strikes to Afghanistan and Nigeria, 290+ ordered by 20+ air forces, and a counter-drone role added in 2025.
An AI-driven robotic gun that shoots drones out of the sky with ordinary bullets — the "magazine-deep, ten-dollar-a-kill" answer to FPV and swarm attacks. Computer vision lays the gun; a human pulls the trigger. Fielded with the US Army and Navy and now valued at $2.2 billion.
Anduril's "operating system for war" — software that fuses sensors into one picture and commands swarms of autonomous systems at machine speed, letting one operator run many drones. It anchors a $20B US Army contract and the Air Force's drone-wingman program.
Ukraine's ~$1,000 answer to the Shahed: a partly-3D-printed interceptor drone that rams or proximity-detonates against incoming attack drones — the cheap, kinetic, deterrence-by-denial weapon now gaining an onboard AI eye that spots a Shahed faster than a human pilot.
The Australian firm is localizing C-UAS production for Europe's sovereign-supply push, an A$2.2 billion order book on one side and an Australian insider-trading probe on the other.
The U.S. Army’s primary expendable jet-powered interceptor for drone defense — operated within the LIDS architecture, paired with KuRFS radar, and now arming Navy destroyers.
Rheinmetall’s modular, unmanned 30 mm gun-missile turret — NATO’s emerging standard for mobile short-range air defense against drones, loitering munitions and low-flying aircraft, rapidly adopted across five European armies.
AI-enabled rifle-mounted fire-control sight that turns any rifleman into a drone hunter — organic counter-UAS capability for dismounted squads, now fielded across the US Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Navy.
Israel's mobile, quick-reaction surface-to-air missile family built around Python-5 and Derby interceptors, spanning short-range slant-launch to extended-range vertical-launch and a single-vehicle All-in-One variant, now featuring a counter-tactical-ballistic-missile option.
Germany’s modular, gun-based SHORAD system — built around the 35 mm Oerlikon Revolver Gun Mk3 and Skymaster C2, delivering cost-effective AHEAD airburst fire against drones and cruise missiles in Ukraine, and now being adopted by Italy and other NATO nations.
A reusable, jet-powered vertical-takeoff interceptor built to hunt drones at an order-of-magnitude lower cost than legacy missiles — and land again if the threat evaporates.
Drone-on-drone interceptors now down most of Russia's Shaheds for about $2,500 each, cheap enough that the US, NATO, and Gulf states want to import the capability. Russia is scaling a 500 km/h jet drone built to beat them.
The Pentagon's central counter-drone body is funding repeat buys, and a small specialist is scaling into a procurement line the drone war built.