Cheap drones broke the old air-defence cost curve. Every army now needs an answer that does not spend a six-figure missile on a three-figure quadcopter, and the resulting scramble spans proximity-fuzed cannon rounds, purpose-built shotgun and rifle cartridges, directed energy, jamming, and layered kinetic interceptors. This hub collects ISC's counter-UAS (counter-Uncrewed Aircraft System) coverage: ammunition-level solutions, NSPA market surveys and tenders, doctrine shifts, and the industrial questions behind fielding any of it at scale. Each briefing is sourced, dated, and scored.
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| 13 Jul 2026 | Britain's First Low-Cost Air Defence Contracts: Three Firms, One Cost Problem The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded 3.16 million pounds to three British firms, Frankenburg Technologies, Greenjets and Cambridge Aerospace, for low-cost ai… | NATO Procurement |
| 7 Jul 2026 | The Infantry Drone Killer: Rifle-Calibre Counter-UAS Ammunition Reaches NATO Front Lines SwissP SHATTER4K, Fiocchi CSG, the US Army Drone Round and Rheinmetall UDD are turning standard NATO infantry rifles into short-range counter-drone weapons. | WOME Intelligence |
| 6 Jul 2026 | Building Operational Advantage: NATO ACT's Ankara Message, Read Through a Munitions Lens | NATO Procurement |
| 6 Jul 2026 | AeroVironment's $500m US Army Counter-Drone Award: The Kinetic, Laser and RF Effector Stack AeroVironment has won a $500 million, three-year US Army contract for layered counter-drone effectors spanning RF defeat, lasers and the FE-1 kinetic intercept… | WOME Intelligence |
| 4 Jul 2026 | Belgium's EUR 3.1 Billion Air-Defence Plan Puts 30 mm AHEAD Airburst Ammunition at the Centre of Its Counter-Drone Gun Layer | NATO Procurement |
| 1 Jul 2026 | Europe Builds Its Laser Drone Shield as Directed-Energy Effectors Reach the Fleet NATO's 2025 Integrated Air and Missile Defence policy is the backbone: how Europe's DragonFire, THORIS, PESCO DES and TALOS-TWO laser programmes fill its count… | Operational Analysis |
| 26 Jun 2026 | Pentagon Fires Five Directed Energy Weapons for Hegseth at White Sands Five US directed energy systems, from 20 to 300 kilowatts, fired live for Defense Secretary Hegseth at White Sands on 23 June 2026, sharpening the E-HEL counte… | Defence Industrial Base |
| 22 Jun 2026 | Renault and Thales Scale TOUTATIS Loitering Munition to Mass Production Thales and Renault Group signed a 16 June 2026 partnership to mass-produce the TOUTATIS loitering munition in France, targeting about 1,000 units a month from… | Defence Industrial Base |
| 17 Jun 2026 | Rheinmetall reveals a containerised FV-014 loitering-munition launcher at Eurosatory 2026 Rheinmetall unveiled the Containerized Missile Launcher (CML), an 18-round container launcher for its FV-014 loitering munition, at Eurosatory 2026. The 20 kg… | WOME Intelligence |
| 15 Jun 2026 | USMC Sole-Sources 5.56mm Anti-Drone Cartridge The US Marine Corps issued a sole-source notice to buy Drone Round LLC's 5.56mm L Variant anti-drone cartridge, a drop-in round that splits into five. | WOME Intelligence |
| 15 Jun 2026 | RWS Builds a Light 7.62mm Round to Engage Drones Over Cities RWS launched its Urban Drone Defence family at Eurosatory 2026: a 7.62x51mm kinetic counter-drone round using light polymer projectiles to cut collateral risk. | WOME Intelligence |
| 12 Jun 2026 | US Army Orders Up to $106 Million of L3Harris VAMPIRE Counter-UAS Rocket Systems The US Army has awarded L3Harris a contract worth up to $106 million for VAMPIRE palletised launchers firing 70mm laser-guided rockets against drones. | WOME Intelligence |
| 6 Jun 2026 | DragonFire: Britain's £316m Naval Laser, 2027 Britain's DragonFire laser won a £316m MBDA contract to arm Royal Navy Type 45 destroyers by 2027. Inside the £10-a-shot counter-drone case. | WOME Intelligence |
| 4 Jun 2026 | UK Buys More Thales LMM Counter-Drone Missiles The UK MoD has signed a £36m Thales contract for hundreds more laser-guided Lightweight Multirole Missiles, now central to British counter-drone defence. | WOME Intelligence |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Weaponising the Smallest Drone: The Lethality Prize and Drone Dominance The Pentagon's Lethality Prize Challenge named five winners on 19 May 2026, each taking a $10,000 prize and a preferred-provider safety track. ISC examines wha… | WOME Intelligence |
| 29 May 2026 | The Cartridge Catches Up With the Drone: NSPA Surveys Industry for Counter-UAS Ammunition NSPA market survey FBO 26LBS035 asks industry which calibres, fuzes and effector rounds can defeat NATO Class 1 and Class 2 drones affordably, moving NATO's co… | NATO Procurement |
| 26 May 2026 | Ukraine Splits Largest-Ever 155 mm Buy Across Six Vendors: Full Platform Picture and the Reform Lineage Ukraine's Defence Procurement Agency DOT contracts six manufacturers for its largest-ever 155mm long-range artillery buy. 16% saved through competition, the fu… | NATO Procurement |
| 22 May 2026 | Rheinmetall FV-014: Neuss Serial Production Begins Rheinmetall shifts FV-014 loitering munition serial production to a repurposed Neuss automotive plant under a €2.4bn Bundeswehr framework. WOME technical asses… | WOME Intelligence |
| 22 May 2026 | MADIS as a Tactical Pair: How the Marines Built a Counter-Drone System Across Two JLTVs Deep dive on the US Marine Corps Marine Air Defense Integrated System (MADIS) as a tactical pair. Both Mk1 and Mk2 carry an identical Kongsberg Protector RS6 w… | Special Reports |
| 22 May 2026 | From Apache to Stryker: The 30×113mm Chain Gun Family on SGT STOUT and MADIS The same Hughes-designed 30mm chain gun that armed the AH-64 in 1986 now sits central to the U.S. Army's SGT STOUT and the U.S. Marine Corps' MADIS. A guide to… | WOME Intelligence |
| 21 May 2026 | HERO vs Switchblade: Comparative Technical Assessment of Western Loitering Munition Families ISC Defence Intelligence comparative technical assessment of UVision HERO and AeroVironment Switchblade loitering munition families across small, medium and la… | WOME Intelligence |
| 21 May 2026 | One Vehicle or Two: SGT STOUT, MADIS, and the Counter-Drone Architectural Split Deep dive on the architectural split between the US Army SGT STOUT (single Stryker A1, XM914 electric dual-feed) and the US Marine Corps MADIS (JLTV Mk1/Mk2 pa… | WOME Intelligence |
| 21 May 2026 | Three 30 mm Drone Killers: AMPV-30 Is Not a Duplicate Deep dive on BAE Systems' self-funded AMPV-30 prototype delivered to the US Army 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood under Transformation in Contact 2.0. Why the… | Defence Industrial Base |
| 10 May 2026 | Switchblade 400 Selected for US Army LASSO Programme AeroVironment's Switchblade 400 selected for the US Army LASSO programme — man-portable anti-armour loitering munition, 65 km range, autonomous ATR. | WOME Intelligence |
| 5 May 2026 | SGT STOUT and the 30mm Counter-Drone Round Inventory Gap US Army SGT STOUT SHORAD and the XM1211/XM1223/XM1225 30mm advanced cartridges: performance, the 440,000-round stock gap, and the critical-materials bottleneck. | Standards & Regulation |
| 4 May 2026 | NSPA Ammunition Support Partnership: Five Procurement Notices Map 2026 Pipeline NSPA opens five Ammunition Support Partnership procurement tracks in late April and early May 2026 — three sole-source awards (SLAP-T, AT2 mines, PATRIOT test… | NATO Procurement |
| 3 May 2026 | IDF Strikes 120 Hezbollah Sites in 72 Hours: Weapons-Depot Targeting and Explosive-Laden Drone Saturation Across Southern Lebanon Israel Defense Forces (IDF) report 50 airstrikes in 24 hours and 120 Hezbollah-linked targets struck across the May 2-3 weekend, with command nodes and weapons… | WOME Intelligence |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Rheinmetall FV-014 Loitering Munition: Bundeswehr Multi-Billion Framework Technical analysis of the Bundeswehr’s multi-billion euro FV-014 loitering munition framework contract with Rheinmetall, covering warhead, propulsion, and GNSS… | WOME Intelligence |
| 26 Apr 2026 | NightFighter Mini at Quantico: a five-person UK supplier, FY24 money about to lapse, and the second urgency-authority C-sUAS award in seven weeks — ISC Defence Intelligence USMC Systems Command awarded SteelRock Technologies a $9.5M sole-source contract for NightFighter Mini handheld C-sUAS effectors under 10 USC 2304(a)(2). Benea… | NATO Procurement |
| 26 Apr 2026 | Rheinmetall FV-014 EUR2.4bn Framework: Bundeswehr Loitering Munition WOME technical assessment of the EUR2.4bn Rheinmetall FV-014 loitering munition framework signed with the Bundeswehr on 22 April 2026. | WOME Intelligence |
| 23 Apr 2026 | EDIP €1.5 Billion Work Programme Targets Ammunition Production The European Commission's EDIP work programme allocates over €700 million to ramp up missile, counter-drone, and ammunition production across EU member states… | WOME Intelligence |
| 20 Apr 2026 | Bundeswehr Approves €2.4bn FV-014 Raider Framework German Bundestag Budget Committee approves framework contract of up to €2.4 billion for Rheinmetall FV-014 Raider loitering munition; first call-off ~€300m for… | WOME Intelligence |
| 17 Apr 2026 | India Bheeshan MBMLS — 18-Round Loitering Salvo in Two Minutes Redon Systems unveiled the Bheeshan multi-barrel loitering munition launcher on 16 April 2026 — 18 rounds in 120 seconds, 30 km range, 1.1–3.5 kg HE or HEAT wa… | WOME Intelligence |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Geran-2 FPV Carrier: Hybrid Munition Threat | ISC WOME assessment of Russia's Geran-2 modified to carry FPV attack drones, creating a hybrid loitering munition with novel EOD identification challenges. | WOME Intelligence |
| 12 Apr 2026 | The Marines’ Quiet Revolution: How HERO 120 Is Rewriting Close Fires Doctrine The US Marine Corps has built an organic precision fires capability around UVision’s HERO 120 loitering munition that inverts seventy-five years of Close Air S… | WOME Intelligence |
| 9 Apr 2026 | Precision Grenadier System: Counter-Drone 40mm Munitions Replace M203/M320 After two decades of failed programmes including the cancelled XM25, the US Army issues a new solicitation for the Precision Grenadier System — a next-generati… | WOME Intelligence |
| 8 Apr 2026 | Counter-Drone Ammunition Enters NATO Small Arms Inventory Freedom Munitions introduces multi-projectile anti-UAS rounds in 5.56mm and 7.62mm NATO, delivering kinetic counter-drone capability through standard infantry… | WOME Intelligence |
| 27 Mar 2026 | XM121 30mm HE-P Round: US Army Adapts Existing Munitions for Counter-UAS Role The US Army Capability Programme Executive for Ammunition and Energetics is repurposing existing 30 mm, mortar and artillery natures with proximity fuze… | WOME Intelligence |
| 27 Mar 2026 | US Army Counter-UAS Ammunition Strategy: XM121 Proximity Fuze US Army develops XM121 proximity fuze ammunition for counter-UAS operations across organic fire support platforms. | WOME Intelligence |
| 25 Mar 2026 | 18 EU Nations Move to Joint Procurement of Loitering Munitions Eighteen EU Member States are pursuing collaborative capability development and joint procurement of loitering munitions through the European Defence Agency, m… | NATO Procurement |
| 24 Mar 2026 | UK Expands Martlet Missile Procurement After 40+ Drone Intercepts: Counter-Drone Capability Proven in Combat — ISC Defence Intelligence The UK Ministry of Defence is expanding procurement of Thales Martlet Lightweight Multirole Missiles after Royal Navy Wildcat HMA2 helicopters intercepted over… | WOME Intelligence |
| 6 Mar 2026 | BAE Systems Develops Scalable Counter-Drone Weapons Platform BAE Systems is advancing modular counter-unmanned aerial system capabilities through strategic partnership, addressing emerging threats to force protection. Th… | Operational Analysis |