Perseus Defense's Harpe interceptor scores first attritable-missile drone kill
What's the deal? Texas-based counter-drone specialist Perseus DefenseDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → released video on 2 November 2026 of its low-cost Harpe interceptor climbing and striking a hovering multirotor drone in a counter-UAS test — which co-founder and CEO Jason Cornelius described as the first time an "attritable" missile has shot down a drone. Harpe is a guided interceptor roughly 61 cm long with a stated range of about 2 km and a target price below $10,000 per shot, far under the $100,000-plus interceptors militaries often fire at drones that may cost only a few hundred or few thousand dollars.
Why it matters: Perseus earlier achieved radar-cued multi-missile launches and fully active guidance intercepts during the US Army's Golden Shield exercise this year, and in September fired its Mk-III interceptor from an eight-round launcher. An interceptor cheap enough to expend in volume is the central economics problem of ground-based counter-UAS, and Harpe is positioned squarely at that gap.
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