The Interception Gap: Directed Energy Solved Cost of Shooting Down Drones, Exposed a Harder Problem Underneath
NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NetworkNewsWire Editorial Coverage: For most of the past decade, counter-drone defense was framed as a capability question. It has quietly become a question of arithmetic, and the answer the defense establishment has converged on is directed energy, which trades a multimillion-dollar interceptor for a laser that fires for pennies. That fix has exposed a second and harder problem sitting underneath it. Aiming a laser demands a class of perception that most of the deployed world does not have, and the threat itself has just gone silent. Wrap Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:WRAP) (profile) has spent the summer assembling a position at exactly that seam, a