The British defense giant unveiled BlackThorn, a new family of modular warheads built specifically for the current wave of cheap, mass-produced weapons reshaping modern warfare, from autonomous drones and one-way attack munitions to counter-drone interceptors, missiles and unmanned ground vehicles. BAE Systems designed the warhead family to be modular, meaning the same core technology can [β¦]The U.S. Air Force has handed a Georgia drone maker a contract worth up to $90 million to build small, expendable aircraft designed to deny enemies the ability to fly. Tandem Defense, based in Richmond Hill, Georgia, won a new contract, meaning the U.S. Air Force can order any quantity of equipment up to the [β¦]The U.S. Air Force wants to install a network of microphones at one of its most secretive bases in England, built specifically to hear enemy drones coming before anyone ever sees them. A newly published Air Force solicitation reveals that the 352nd Special Operations Wing at RAF Mildenhall is seeking a passive acoustic drone detection [β¦]A robotic gun mount built by a Texas firm just landed a spot on one of the Marine Corpsβ most important counter-drone vehicles, giving Marines a way to turn an ordinary machine gun into an autonomous, AI-guided weapon. Allen Control Systems announced that the Marine Corps selected its Bullfrog autonomous weapon station for the serviceβs [β¦]Lockheed Martin unveiled MORFIUS X-Rotor at the Farnborough International Airshow, an airborne counter-drone system built around a high-power microwave weapon that the company says can neutralize an entire swarm of hostile drones in a single mission, then land, get recovered, and fly again. A high-power microwave weapon, commonly shortened to HPM, works by blasting a [β¦]X-Bow Systems unveiled Buckler, a flight-tested interceptor built to shoot down Group 3 drones at supersonic speeds, with the company pricing the weapon below $100,000 per unit, a fraction of what traditional air defense missiles cost to defeat the exact same kind of threat. Group 3 drones sit in the middle of the militaryβs five-tier [β¦]The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Centerβs Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio published a market research notice this week seeking industry information on a new ground-based launcher built to shoot down both cruise missiles and drones ranging from small commercial-style quadcopters up to large, fixed-wing [β¦]Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) introduced HYPNOSIS, a navigation warfare system built to counter large numbers of drones and other satellite-guided aerial threats by scrambling the navigation signals those weapons depend on to find their targets, rather than physically shooting them down. Most modern drones, including the cheap, mass-produced one-way attack drones that have become a [β¦]Israelβs largest defense contractor is bringing a laser cannon that shoots down rockets with light, a missile precise enough to hit hardened underground bunkers, and a record-breaking $2.3 billion European air defense deal to one of the worldβs biggest aviation trade shows this week. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announced it will showcase a wide portfolio [β¦]A South African aircraft manufacturer has unveiled a new way to hunt down the cheap, disposable drones that have started terrorizing power plants, ports, and military bases around the world, and its answer involves putting a human pilot back in the loop rather than relying purely on ground-based radar networks. Paramount Aerospace Industries announced a [β¦]Axon Vision, an Israeli defense technology company, announced Thursday the launch of ForceField, a new protection system designed to shield tanks, armored vehicles, and troops on the move from first-person-view drones, the cheap, remote-piloted aircraft that have become one of the deadliest threats facing ground forces in modern combat. First-person-view drones, commonly called FPV drones, [β¦]The U.S. Army has agreed to help test a weapon that fires interceptors using magnets instead of gunpowder or rocket fuel, betting that ditching traditional propulsion might finally solve a math problem that has been quietly draining Americaβs missile stockpiles. Auriga Space, a California company building electromagnetic launch technology, and the Armyβs Combat Capabilities Development [β¦]Britainβs military just handed itself a $536 million-a-year budget and a five-point checklist for turning laboratory ideas into battlefield equipment faster than its notoriously slow defense bureaucracy has managed in decades. UK Defence Innovation, the Ministry of Defenceβs newly consolidated innovation arm known as UKDI, announced Wednesday the five core themes that will guide how [β¦]A U.S. Army base in Washington state just got a new kind of neighbor: a kinetic interceptor built to shoot small drones out of the sky before they reach anything worth protecting. Joint Base Lewis-McChord began installing a suite of Anduril Industries counter-drone hardware, the first physical build-out of a system meant to shield one [β¦]OpenWorks Engineering, a counter-drone specialist based in Northumberland, England, announced this week that it recently attended an industry-focused counter-unmanned aircraft systems, or C-UAS, event at the British Armyβs Larkhill Garrison, where the company demonstrated its Vision Pace targeting system to defense and security partners. Larkhill sits on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire and has served as [β¦]The company that helped supply Ukraineβs front lines with cheap, mass-produced attack drones just announced it is racing to build the exact opposite: a drone built specifically to hunt and kill other drones. Neros Technologies posted a video on July 10 showing early testing of what the company calls Bandit, a counter-unmanned aircraft system, or [β¦]A Swedish aerospace startup has let journalists watch its foot-long, carbon-fiber interceptor drone chase down and destroy a target aircraft in real time, the first live public demonstration of a system the company hopes will help defend against the wave of cheap attack drones reshaping modern warfare. Nordic Air Defence held what it called a [β¦]Rostec, Russiaβs state-owned defense conglomerate, announced on July 3, 2026, that its subsidiary High Precision Systems has begun delivering the first production batches of an anti-drone cartridge called Mnogotochie, a name that translates roughly to βellipsis,β to troops in the field. The company says full-scale serial production is now underway, with an initial experimental batch [β¦]A wheeled cannon that looks nothing like traditional artillery has fired live rounds on camera for the first time, and the footage shows exactly why the U.S. Army is betting on it to solve one of modern warfareβs most expensive problems. BAE Systems released new test footage on July 2, 2026, showing its Multi-Domain Artillery [β¦]
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