🚩NATO launches a unified catalog of counter-drone systems The NATO Communications and Information Ag

🚩NATO launches a unified catalog of counter-drone systems

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) has announced the launch of the Counter-UAS Marketplace – a platform (mechanism) for accelerated procurement of counter-drone systems.

The marketplace allows NATO countries to purchase already approved systems directly through the catalog, without conducting a new tender for each order, which significantly speeds up the procurement process.

Five companies have been approved: 🇫🇷Alta Ares, 🇺🇸Axon Enterprise and 🇺🇸Northrop Grumman, 🇬🇧OSL UK, and 🇩🇪Quantum Systems. The French company Alta Ares has the most entries – six out of the sixteen entries in the catalog.

The companies presented stationary, transportable, and mobile systems in the following categories: facility protection (protecting a military base, command post, or critical infrastructure), area protection (with a diameter of up to 3 km), border protection ⚡️(continuous monitoring of a 20 km stretch), and convoy protection (escorting a convoy up to 300 m long at a speed of up to 50 km/h).

✨This decision (previously thoroughly tested on Ukrainians) significantly simplifies European bureaucracy in the procurement of weapons, including those manufactured abroad, and also helps to ensure super profits and long-term workload for selected defense companies.

⭐️✨A similar platform has also appeared in Russia relatively recently. We haven't heard any glowing reviews about it yet.

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