Product profile
Halo_Shield
Halo_Shield is AeroVironment modular counter-UAS defense system. It is designed to detect, track and defeat drones, drone swarms and subsonic cruise-missil...
Facts
- Company
- AeroVironment
- Product type
- counter_uas_system
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- counter-UAS detection and autonomy modules
- Website
- https://www.avinc.com/solution/halo_shield/
About Halo_Shield
Halo_Shield distributes sensors, command software and effectors across modular protection tiles positioned around the protected site. Each tile contributes detection, tracking, identification or defeat capacity and can be added as the defended area or expected threat density changes.
AV_Halo COMMAND fuses the distributed components and integrates national sensors, air-traffic systems and partner networks through an open architecture. The system is intended to counter individual drones, large swarms and subsonic cruise-missile threats around military units and critical infrastructure. Halo_Shield was publicly introduced in April 2026 and remains in early programme deployment.
Market context
Counter-UAS system should keep its specific public label but not appear as an aircraft in the Drone bucket., counter_uas_system_v1, cdde53ae68199f6866acb5640941933561a76867b7bbac2bafa9b919ef7722f1, 2026-05-22, Counter-UAS System, defense_autonomy, https://www.avinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AVH_HaloShield_HeroImage.jpg?quality=100, modular_distributed_cuas, https://www.avinc.com/solution/halo_shield/, products/qa-fixes-2026-05-22/aerovironment-halo-shield-cdde53ae68.png, other, counter_uas_system, official_photo_crop
Summary
Type: C-UAS system
Core: Drone defense
Function: Protection
Audience: Armed forces
Specifications
- deployment_format
- Portable fly-away kits
- deployment_model
- Modular distributed system
- form_type
- Modular distributed counter-UAS defence system
- integration_model
- customer sensor; effector; command-and-control framework integration
- operational_role
- Counter-UAS defence and site protection
- target_class
- Drone swarms, advanced UAS and subsonic cruise missiles
Operations
- Environment
- defense_site, critical_infrastructure, distributed_base
- Primary user
- defense_operators, security_teams, critical_infrastructure_operators
- Role
- counter_uas_system, site_protection, distributed_air_defense
- Interaction model
- sensor_fusion, command_and_control, modular_effectors
- Mobility class
- distributed_fixed_and_portable_system
- Product detail
- Counter-UAS system should keep its specific public label but not appear as an aircraft in the Drone bucket., counter_uas_system_v1, cdde53ae68199f6866acb5640941933561a76867b7bbac2bafa9b919ef7722f1, 2026-05-22, Counter-UAS System, defense_autonomy, https://www.avinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AVH_HaloShield_HeroImage.jpg?quality=100, modular_distributed_cuas, https://www.avinc.com/solution/halo_shield/, products/qa-fixes-2026-05-22/aerovironment-halo-shield-cdde53ae68.png, other, counter_u...
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- AeroVironment and Applied Intuition validate Mayhem 10 swarm autonomy — 2026-07-29
- Teledyne FLIR receives Argus XL order for AV Titan MS deployments — 2026-07-29
- AeroVironment receives 82-aircraft P550 full-rate production order — 2026-07-20
- AeroVironment wins $30.9M NSPA purchase order for Germany LARUS Puma systems — 2026-07-07
- U.S. Army awards AeroVironment $500M counter-UAS contract — 2026-07-01
- AeroVironment reports FY26 revenue growth and $2.7B bookings — 2026-06-29
- AV introduces TOM 50 RE backpackable UGV for reconnaissance and EOD — 2026-06-14
- AeroVironment plans $15 million Dayton-area advanced production expansion — 2026-06-02