LAD & C-UAS

Ukrainian drone interceptors destroyed more than 3,500 Russian unmanned aerial systems in May alone across three layered tiers of air defense, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Oleksandr Syrskyi announced, with the result reported by Ukrainian defense outlet Militarnyi

L’entreprise australienne EOS a choisi la France pour installer son hub européen consacré à la lutte anti-drones (LAD), a annoncé l’Élysée hier en marge du 9ème sommet Choose France.

L’Allemagne et les Pays-Bas étaient également en lice. Ce sera finalement la technopole de Sophia Antipolis. EOS y investira plus de 10 M€ pour faire de la banlieue niçoise son pôle européen autour des systèmes LAD. Ce projet, l’un des 71 annoncés lors d’un sommet record et l’un des quatre relevant des domaines du spatial et de la défense, « permettra de développer l’écosystème industriel grâce à des technologies souveraines », a déclaré l’Élysée. Jusqu’à 150 emplois pourraient être créés en trois ans, « incluant des postes d’ingénieur et de développement logiciel à forte valeur ajoutée en France ».

Ce hub sera adossé au nouveau siège de MARSS, société acquise le mois dernier par EOS et jusqu’alors implantée à Monaco. L’investissement permettra à EOS de muscler son offre LAD en y intégrant le système de commandement et de contrôle (C2) NiDAR de MARSS, enrichi d’une brique d’intelligence artificielle et déployé à grande échelle au Moyen-Orient.

Actif dans le spatial et la défense, EOS s’est depuis longtemps positionné dans le domaine désormais prioritaire de la LAD. Derrière ses tourelleaux téléopérés, elle est l’une des premières entreprises à avoir vendu des lasers de forte puissance à l’export. L’un d’entre eux, un laser de 100 kW produit à Singapour, sera livré à l’armée néerlandaise. Un autre a été commandé par la Corée du Sud. L’histoire ne s’arrête pas là, EOS « explorant la production de lasers à haute énergie et le développement de capacités de guerre spatiale pour la France et le marché européen », ajoute l’Élysée.

Le projet contribuera au passage à rapprocher EOS de KNDS. Des synergies sont à l’étude depuis un moment, les tourelleaux du premier étant susceptibles d’intégrer l’armement de moyen calibre du second. Leur rapprochement s’est formalisé en février dernier à Riyad avec la signature d’un accord de partenariat. Focalisé sur le canon de 30 mm 30M781 et les véhiculles de KNDS, il prévoit justement d’axer l’effort sur les systèmes LAD.

The disruptive paint appears designed to confuse machine-vision targeting systems as autonomous drones become a growing threat. The disruptive paint appears designed to confuse machine-vision targeting systems as autonomous drones become a growing threat.

HELIOS is the only laser able to down drones installed on an active Navy warship, and putting it in a container would open up new deployment possibilities.

The U.S. Army's top civilian official sat down at the operator's seat of a laser-armed pickup truck at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and personally checked the weapon at a drone target, the latest signal from Washington that

Armenia displayed a domestically developed jet-powered interceptor drone at its Republic Day military parade on May 28, publicly debuting the DDS-10K for the first time and positioning the country's defense industry as a credible producer of air defense munitions capable

The U.S. Army is pumping $20 million into expanding AeroVironment's Huntsville, Alabama facility to accelerate production of Freedom Eagle-1, a new low-cost interceptor missile designed to shoot down drones and aircraft at a price point that makes defending against mass

NATO Allied Air Command led counter-drone training over Lithuania and Latvia on 27 May 2026.

Europe’s drone threat is growing rapidly, particularly for NATO members, matching the pace at which Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has established itself as a leader in hard-kill counter-drone capability. Slinger, EOS' combat-proven C-UAS RWS, is widely regarded as one of the strongest kinetic options on the market. EOS has now broadened that capability with Apollo, a 100 kW high energy laser that made its debut to European defence audiences at DSEI in London this September.

Lockheed Martin said it successfully intercepted a Group 3 one-way attack test drone using a Joint-Air-to-Ground Missile launched from a GRIZZLY containerized launcher for the first time.

Canada announced on June 2 that it finalized a deal in January 2026 to purchase 26 HIMARS rocket artillery systems from the United States for approximately $1.9 billion, giving the Canadian Army its first long-range precision strike capability and a

An Israeli defense firm is preparing to show off a laser weapon at Eurosatory later this month that can burn through a drone in under two seconds while drawing only a fraction of the power that comparable directed-energy systems require.

South Korea just cracked one of the most tightly guarded engineering secrets in global defense, successfully developing a domestic laser oscillator for its Cheongwang laser weapon system, a component so strategically sensitive that only the United States, Israel, China, and

The U.S. Army's 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade has tested a new low-cost interceptor called Skyhammer in Europe, putting Cambridge Aerospace's system through developmental evaluations designed to determine whether it can fill critical gaps in the layered air defense architecture

A $48.5 million contract awarded to L3Harris to produce proximity fuzes for the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System is the latest signal that the U.S. military has found its answer to the drone swarm problem, and is now scaling that

Shooting down a drone while your vehicle is moving at speed over rough terrain is one of the hardest problems in modern counter-drone defense, and it is also one of the most urgent. A British engineering company has built a

A coalition of European and Ukrainian defense companies launched Dronetex at Odense Airport in Denmark, presenting a set of integrated air defense and counter-drone technologies that its members describe not as future concepts but as systems already operating in real-world

U.S. Army air defenders in Europe have tested the Skyhammer effector during a recent iteration of Project Bullfrog.