Anduril Industries has delivered a rapidly deployable counter-UAS kit to U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and demonstrated the equipment at the Falcon Peak 25.2 exercise at Eglin Air Force Base, the company said.
The kit is intended to provide a field-ready, end-to-end capability for short-duration counter-drone missions protecting U.S. military installations. Anduril said the Falcon Peak demonstration validated that the system meets NORTHCOM’s operational requirements; the company did not disclose any further details of the evaluation beyond the exercise location.
Anduril’s modular kit bundles several of the company’s existing products into a single package, including autonomous detection and tracking (Mobile Sentry), a wide-area passive infrared sensor configuration (Wisp in a SkyFence setup), radio-frequency detection and effects (Pulsar) and a low-collateral kinetic interceptor (Anvil).
The configuration also includes integrated power, networking and edge computing and runs on Anduril’s Lattice software platform.
The delivery responds to a reported rise in incursions over U.S. installations, with USNORTHCOM recording more than 350 unauthorized drone incidents at about 100 sites in 2024. Anduril framed the kit as intended for rapid deployment by military personnel to support installation commanders who face drone incursions they cannot resolve locally.
Company materials emphasise that the kits are built specifically to operate within U.S. airspace constraints, citing compliance considerations such as Federal Aviation Administration regulations. Anduril described the package as offering full kill-chain coverage including detection, tracking, identification and defeat, in a single, transportable system.
The inclusion of Anvil, a hit-to-kill interceptor that physically collides with target drones, and Pulsar’s RF effects offers a mixed approach combining kinetic and non-kinetic defeat options. Anduril did not disclose operational parameters for the components demonstrated at Falcon Peak, nor did it provide a timeline for wider fielding.
NORTHCOM has been publicly engaged in efforts to improve homeland C-UAS posture, including prototyping, exercises and plans for rapid response teams equipped with fly-away kits. The Anduril delivery and Falcon Peak demonstration mark a private-sector contribution to those efforts.
As drone incursions over military and civilian sites continue to draw attention, rapid-deploy C-UAS kits are becoming a valuable addition to homeland defense planning. The extent to which such modular packages will be adopted across installations, and how they will be coordinated with civilian aviation authorities, will be determined as commands complete testing and refine operational procedures.
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