DroneShield sells C-UAS equipment to Pentagon

Sydney based DroneShield has announced a further $7.6 million sale of its hand-held, Counter-Uncrewed Aerial System (C-UAS) products to the US Department of Defense. The company says it has received a package of 3 standalone contracts for handheld systems for delivery to undisclosed agencies of the US Government. DroneShield expects to deliver all equipment before the end of this calendar year, which justifies its policy of always having product on the shelf for rapid delivery.

The company says it is seeing continued rapid increase in customer order flow, especially from repeat customers looking to step up their  C-UAS capabilities from a low or non-existent base.

DroneShield has previously received orders from the US Department of Defense, including $5.7 million in May 2024 and $7.9 million in September 2025. These repeat orders strengthen DroneShield’s position as a trusted provider of mission-critical solutions to address drone threats on the battlefield and the civilian sector.

DroneShield CEO, Oleg Vornik, commented, “In addition to the larger orders such as the $62 million European order received in June and fully delivered since, smaller frequent orders such as this one play an important role in ensuring the steady flow of the business, ongoing market fulfilment with our solutions, as well as building trust and laying ground for the larger orders in our sales pipeline. The pipeline includes multiple opportunities over $100 million each, including the largest $800 million opportunity, that the business is currently working on, with our customers.”

“For 2025 year to date, DroneShield has received 78 Purchase Orders with a median size order of approximately $400k. This compared to 66 orders for all of 2024, with the median order value of $200k – showing a diverse business continuing to grow across all metrics.”

Operationally, DroneShield’s deliveries and order backlong have risen from $500 million annually and will grow to $2.4 billion by the end of 2026, including commencement of European and US based assembly plants.

DroneShield’s handheld solutions form a cornerstone of its wider counter-drone portfolio, which spans dismounted, vehicle-mounted and fixed-site solutions that fuse multiple sensors and effectors integrated through DroneShield’s advanced C2 software. Together, they provide a layered defence architecture enabling operators to detect, track, identify, and defeat hostile drones quickly and accurately, says the company.

DroneShield launched its newest AI-enabled Software as a Service (SaaS) offering in October, RFAI-ATK, the company’s next-generation software-based targeted disruption for precise waveform defeat. It targets specific Radio Frequency (RF) protocols for efficient and accurate CUxS capabilities against all types of uncrewed system.  It is currently undergoing trial deployments with its customers and expected to launch as a regular SaaS solution in mid 2026.