Spain Tests EM&E and Indra ARACNE Counter-Drone Turrets and Jamming Robot

Spanish defense company EM&E Group deployed armored vehicles fitted with remote weapon stations alongside a jamming-equipped ground robot to detect and shoot down several drones during the Spanish military's ATLAS 26 counter-drone exercise in Huelva. The systems tested are configurations of ARACNE, a roughly €30.24M ($34M) counter-drone program developed by an EM&E and Indra Group joint venture that covers 7 fixed and 7 mobile systems for the Spanish Armed Forces. The field demonstration included two 4x4 tactical vehicles equipped with GUARDIAN 2.0 remote weapon stations for kinetic gunfire interception, a FEROX 6x6 armored vehicle carrying a GUARDIAN L-HIT station, and an AUNAV LINK robotic ground vehicle built to jam radio links between drones and their operators. The ARACNE architecture pairs Indra's command software with a SmartEar radio-frequency scanner monitoring 400 MHz to 6 GHz within about 6 km, plus an EM&E electro-optical station capable of spotting targets over 14 km away by day and up to 23.1 km via thermal imaging. An Indra-developed system under the ARACNE project already protects the Spanish military contingent deployed with NATO in Lithuania, and the company stated in March 2026 that the platform had attracted interest from several nations along NATO's eastern flank.