European Counter-HGV Sensor Architecture
EDF 2026, adaptive radar, and the NATO IAMD integration problem
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About this report
Hypersonic glide vehicles expose a structural weakness in European air and missile defence: the problem is not only interception, but the prior ability to convert a fast, manoeuvring, low-trajectory and variable-signature threat into a stable, classified and engageable track.
The EDF 2026 Counter-HGV EUCI action, with its EUR 68 million direct-award second tranche, should therefore be read less as an isolated hypersonic demonstrator programme and more as a data-generation node for Europe’s future counter-HGV sensor architecture. Public sources do not confirm a stand-alone “MBDA-Thales HGV-D radar” programme.
Key questions this report answers
- Why does the counter-HGV problem hinge on converting fast, manoeuvring, low-trajectory threats into stable, classified and engageable tracks rather than only on interception?
- How should the EDF 2026 Counter-HGV EUCI action and its EUR 68 million direct-award second tranche be understood as a data-generation node?
- What sensor technologies and architecture would underpin Europe's future counter-HGV sensor network?
- What is the evidentiary status of a claimed stand-alone MBDA-Thales HGV-D radar programme and its implications?
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