COUNTER-UAS MAP // Q2 2026
The counter-drone vendor landscape.
Counter-UAS is now a multi-segment market with a maturity gap between sensors, defeat effectors, and the autonomy software that fuses them. This vendor map tracks 45 companies across six capability segments, from detection radar through directed-energy effectors to integrated defence primes, sorted by what they actually deliver, not what their marketing claims.
SEGMENT 01, DETECTION & TRACKING
10 vendors
SEGMENT 02, RF & CYBER DEFEAT
3 vendors
SEGMENT 03, KINETIC DEFEAT
5 vendors
SEGMENT 04, DIRECTED ENERGY
4 vendors
SEGMENT 05, AI & COMMAND-AND-CONTROL
5 vendors
SEGMENT 06, INTEGRATED DEFENCE PRIMES
18 vendors
Showing 45 of 45 vendors
SEGMENT 01, DETECTION & TRACKING
The sensor layer.
Radar, RF, electro-optical, and acoustic sensors that find drones before any defeat decision can be made. The detection layer is the compute that the rest of the C-UAS kill chain runs on, and the segment with the deepest competitive depth in the European theatre.
Dedrone
Washington DC, USA
RF and sensor-fusion airspace security platform.
Drone Intelligence Profile →Echodyne
Kirkland, WA, USA
MESA electronically scanned radar for compact C-UAS sensing.
CHAOS Industries
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Coherent distributed network bistatic radar for drone threats.
Drone Intelligence Profile →Robin Radar Systems
The Hague, Netherlands
IRIS 3D micro-doppler radar for small-drone detection.
SEGMENT 02, RF & CYBER DEFEAT
Non-kinetic defeat through the radio spectrum.
RF jamming, GNSS denial, and protocol-level cyber takeover. The non-kinetic defeat segment is operationally distinct from broadband jamming because takeover preserves the drone for forensics, and is the segment Western forces lean on most heavily in dense urban or critical-infrastructure environments where collateral concerns rule out kinetic effects.
D-Fend Solutions
Ra'anana, Israel
EnforceAir RF cyber-takeover for safe drone landings.
Drone Intelligence Profile →SEGMENT 03, KINETIC DEFEAT
Hard-kill effectors.
Net-capture, guns, missiles, and counter-drone interceptors. The kinetic-defeat segment is where the cost-per-kill problem becomes acute against drone swarms, and the strategic shift from million-pound interceptors to networked low-cost effectors is the principal procurement battleground for the next twenty-four months.
OpenWorks Engineering
Riding Mill, UK
SkyWall net-capture launcher for proportionate drone defeat.
Fortem Technologies
Lindon, UT, USA
TrueView radars and DroneHunter net-capture interceptor.
Drone Intelligence Profile →L3Harris Technologies
Melbourne, FL, USA
VAMPIRE rocket-and-EO C-sUAS plus WESCAM sensors.
SEGMENT 04, DIRECTED ENERGY
High-power microwave and laser.
Directed-energy defeat inverts the cost-per-kill equation by using effectors with no consumable munition. The segment is the FY27 DAWG procurement focus area where US autonomous-warfare capital concentrates, and the segment with the smallest credible vendor pool given the maturity bar.
Epirus
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Leonidas solid-state high-power microwave for drone swarms.
Drone Intelligence Profile →Lockheed Martin
Bethesda, MD, USA
MORFIUS reusable airborne high-power microwave interceptor.
RTX (Raytheon)
Arlington, VA, USA
Coyote interceptor and Phaser HPM for drone swarm defeat.
SEGMENT 05, AI & COMMAND-AND-CONTROL
The autonomy and decision layer.
C-UAS effectiveness now depends on software that fuses sensors, identifies threats faster than human operators can, and orchestrates effectors across the battle space. The AI and C2 segment is where the most strategic capital sits, and where Pentagon programmes-of-record increasingly draw the line between scale-ups and primes.
Anduril Industries
Costa Mesa, CA, USA
Lattice-cued autonomy with Anvil interceptors and Pulsar EW.
Drone Intelligence Profile →Shield AI
San Diego, CA, USA
Hivemind autonomy stack and V-BAT for contested airspace.
Drone Intelligence Profile →Black Sage
Boise, ID, USA
DefenseOS open-architecture command and control software.
SEGMENT 06, INTEGRATED DEFENCE PRIMES
Full-stack defence integrators.
The defence primes that supply integrated detect-and-defeat solutions to national customers, often as part of broader air-defence procurement. This segment compounds the European rearmament cycle into the C-UAS market, and is the segment most heavily exposed to FY27 NATO procurement increases.
DroneShield
Sydney, Australia
Detection plus DroneGun handheld and fixed RF defeat.
Drone Intelligence Profile →Skylock Systems
Tel Aviv, Israel
Multi-layered detect-and-defeat C-UAS for forty-plus countries.
Liteye Systems
Centennial, CO, USA
C-AUDS radar-EO-RF defeat system fielded with US forces.
SRC, Inc.
North Syracuse, NY, USA
Silent Archer radar plus EW C-UAS used by US Army.
MBDA
Le Plessis-Robinson, France
Sky Warden modular sensors and weapons for force protection.
IAI ELTA Systems
Lod, Israel
Drone Guard radar, COMINT, EO and jammer suite.
Hanwha Aerospace
Seoul, South Korea
Air defence guns and missile systems for layered C-UAS.
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace
Kongsberg, Norway
CORTEX Typhon C-UAS with FLIR sensors and weapon stations.
Teledyne FLIR Defense
Wilsonville, OR, USA
LVSS mobile radar, EO/IR and RF C-UAS package.
Advanced Protection Systems
Gdynia, Poland
SKYctrl plus FIELDctrl 3D MIMO radar, combat-proven Ukraine.
This map reflects the strategic intelligence unit’s current assessment of the global counter-UAS landscape as of Q2 2026. Capability-segment placement is based on each vendor’s primary commercial offering. Vendors with significant capability across multiple segments are placed where their unique competitive differentiation sits. Updated quarterly. For bespoke counter-UAS vendor mapping or procurement support, contact the advisory team.