Zone 5 Technologies
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About Zone 5 Technologies
Zone 5 Technologies develops uncrewed aircraft and modular airborne effects for United States defence programmes. Its Open Weapon Platform separates common flight hardware and software from mission payloads, allowing designs to be adapted during development, production and sustainment.
Paladin is a TAK-integrated multi-mission aircraft configured for counter-UAS interception, payload delivery and other tactical roles. It appears on the Defense Innovation Unit Blue UAS list and is manufactured in the United States. Zone 5 also works on low-cost containerised missile and autonomous-aircraft programmes, applying rapid prototyping, digital engineering and flight testing to systems intended for scalable production.
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- 2026-07-14 - Contract Award - Zone 5 linked provisionally to $17.5M interceptor-UAS APFIT award
The government release confirms the programme name, service and $17.5 million amount. Zone 5 publicly identifies Paladin as its multi-mission autonomous UAS and counter-UAS platform. No supplier is named in the award notice; this item must not be read as a confirmed direct award to Zone 5.
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- Defence autonomy builder - Stack Layer - Official company material supports defence autonomy builder.
- Defence UAV builder - Stack Layer - Official company material supports defence uas builder.
- C-UAS interceptor drone builder - Peer Group - Official company material supports cuas interceptor drone builder.
Commercial
- Zone 5 linked provisionally to $17.5M interceptor-UAS APFIT award
2026-07-14 · Order / contract · A $17.5 million APFIT award covers a Low Collateral Effects Interceptor and multi-mission UAS. Zone 5’s Paladin is the LCEI developed with AFRL, but the government release does not identify the supplier, so the company attribution remains provisional.
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