US Military Counter-UAS Systems 2026: The JIATF 401 List

The guide prints a category header only at the start of each run of entries: Fixed/Semi-Fixed Systems from the FS-LIDS entry, Mounted Systems from the L-MADIS entry, and Command and Control (C2) Systems for the last two. The run headed Mounted Systems also contains handheld jammers, a rifle optic, a shoulder-fired missile and several interceptor drones, so the tables below keep the guide's three runs and add a type column that describes each entry from its own text. The type column is Drone Intelligence's description, not the guide's.

The guide groups small UAS by the Department of War's Group 1 to Group 5 categorisation and the entries state the groups each system is designed to defeat where the maker or programme has said so. Groups 1 to 3 cover aircraft up to 1,320 pounds; where an entry says Group 3+ it means the system is intended for larger targets as well. Figures in the tables (ranges, weights, setup times, target capacities) are the guide's figures as printed, most of them maker-supplied; treat them as claims the joint force has chosen to reproduce, not as test results.

One programme note runs across several entries. The two command-and-control platforms, Lattice C2 and FAAD C2, carry the same note in capitals: all C2 platforms are intended to be interoperable with each other. Coyote is described as fully integrated into FAAD C2; Pulsar-L, I-CsUAS and Anvil are described as working through Lattice; Leonidas is described as integrated with FAAD/C2; L-MADIS as interoperable with FAAD C2 systems. The guide does not say which C2 platform any given unit runs.

The first run covers base and installation defence: towers, fixed-site sensor and effector suites, and the interceptors and radars that plug into them. FS-LIDS is the anchor entry and the one the guide is most reticent about, giving component names (AN/TPQ-50 radar, Nighthawk EO/IR camera, the CUAEWS electronic warfare suite) and stating that system ranges are classified. Pulsar appears twice, once as a stand-alone software-defined jammer that the guide says earned Joint Endorsement at the JCO EW Baseline, and once as the electronic-warfare layer of the Installation Counter-small UAS system alongside the WISP infrared sensor, two radar towers and Lattice.

The second run, headed Mounted Systems in the guide, is the widest: vehicle-mounted lasers and launchers, manpack and handheld jammers, cyber-takeover radios, net-capture and collision interceptors, a rifle optic and the Stinger. Ten of the 16 entries that name a maker sit in this run. Three entries carry range figures from the maker: EnforceAir2 (detection up to 4.5 km, mitigation typically 1.2 to 4 km), Leonidas (up to 8 km for low-rate initial production units) and DRAKE (a demonstrated 400 metres or more). AMP-HEL is the one entry with a Limitations block: reduced effectiveness in dense urban areas and heavy rain or fog, difficulty with nano drones and high-speed low-altitude targets, and specific rules-of-engagement and airspace limits.

The guide closes the systems section with two command-and-control platforms and one shared note: all C2 platforms are intended to be interoperable with each other. Lattice is presented as an AI-powered software backbone that fuses sensors, classifies targets and tasks effectors; FAAD C2 as the Army's modular open-architecture air-defence C2, adapted from its counter-rocket, artillery and mortar role to the C-sUAS mission. The government-owned Medusa C2, listed earlier in the mounted run, is the third C2 entry in the document.

Read as a whole, the list is concentrated in a few places. Anduril is named in four entries (Pulsar-L, Anvil, Lattice C2 and the MADIS trailer) and two more, Pulsar and I-CsUAS, describe its products without naming it; Lattice is the C2 reference in three entries besides its own. The APKWS laser-guided rocket appears in four entries (EAGLS, CWS-A, Vampire and the MADIS trailer) from at least two named integrators. That is a programme-of-record munition being packaged for the counter-drone role. Coyote appears as the kinetic layer of both LIDS variants and as its own entry. Nothing in the guide ranks these or states quantities; the concentration is a count of mentions, not of dollars.

Sixteen entries name the maker of the system itself and 21 do not (two of those, MADIS and M-LIDS, name component suppliers instead). The unnamed entries are, almost without exception, the programmes of record and government-integrated systems (FS-LIDS, M-LIDS, MADIS, L-MADIS, Coyote, KuRFS, AMP-HEL, DRAKE, Medusa, FAAD C2, Stinger) plus a handful of commercial products described generically (AUDS, DroneHunter, Paladin, Roadrunner). A vendor whose product is in the guide under its own name has a citable line in a joint-force document; a vendor whose product is in the guide as a component of a programme does not. Drone Intelligence assessment: for a company selling into the US counter-UAS market, that distinction is worth more than the marketplace listing on its own, because the guide is what a tactical operator or interagency planner is handed, and the marketplace is what a contracting officer opens.

Two absences are checkable against the full text and worth stating. Neither DroneShield nor Hidden Level, both tracked as key vendors on the US counter-UAS market page, is named anywhere in the document; nor are Fortem Technologies or CHAOS Industries, although DroneHunter appears without a maker. The guide is explicit that its list is not all inclusive, so absence is not evidence of non-use. It is evidence that, as of Version 4, those names are not in the reference the joint force carries in its pocket.