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DISPATCH 04/26 · 10 Oct 2026
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counter-uav

8 articles
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USAPro

CACI SkyValor

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.

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IsraelPro

D-Fend EnforceAir

D-Fend's EnforceAir is an Israeli counter-drone system that detects a rogue drone's radio protocol, takes over its control link and lands it at a predefined safe spot - no jamming, no shooting. Motorola Solutions agreed in June 2026 to buy D-Fend for $1.5 billion.

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RussiaPro

Volna Kupol Garant

Volna Kupol Garant ("Wave Dome Guarantor") is Russia's trailer-mounted electronic-warfare complex built to jam Starlink's Ku-band uplink, denying Ukraine's Starlink-guided strike drones their control link across a roughly 20-square-kilometer bubble.

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RussiaPro

R-330Zh Zhitel

Russia's R-330Zh Zhitel is a truck-mounted electronic-warfare station built to detect, direction-find and jam GNSS, satellite-phone, cellular and selected radio communications.

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RussiaPro

Pole-21

Pole-21 is Russia's distributed R-340RP GNSS-jamming network, built to mount on cell towers and deny GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou navigation over protected areas.

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EuropePro

DragonFire

Britain's drone-frying laser — a directed-energy weapon that burns aerial targets out of the sky for about £10 a shot, accurate enough to hit a £1 coin at a kilometre. After a 2024 high-power trial it won a £316m deal to arm Royal Navy destroyers from 2027.

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UkrainePro

Bukovel-AD

Ukraine's home-grown drone-killer EW — a Proximus-built system that passively detects UAVs out to ~100 km, then jams their control links and satellite navigation (GPS/GLONASS/Galileo/BeiDou) inside ~20 km. Built specifically to counter Russia's Orlan-10, and now a Ukrainian export.