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C-UAS: better protection for ships from MC2 Technologies
In response to the rapidly evolving drone threat, MC2 Technologies is developing electronic warfare solutions to protect naval vessels. These include the MAJES DFB6 system, showcased at Euronaval 2026 in the French defence procurement and technology agency (DGA) exhibition area.
The MAJES DFB6 drone jamming system, developed by MC2 Technologies, is designed to boost naval vessels’ protection against aerial threats.
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First unveiled at Euronaval in 2024, the MAJES DFB6 drone jamming system has since undergone trials with the French Navy. It has received two endorsements in France: UAF, for equipment used by the French armed forces (2024), and PERSEUS, from the DGA and the French Navy (2025). To adapt its systems to evolving threats, French company MC2 Technologies is leveraging its expertise across the value chain, from micro-components to operational systems, while reinvesting more than 20% of revenue in R&D.
“Our advantage is that we are in direct contact with the various organisations, which keep us informed of emerging threats,” explains Professor Christophe Gaquière, co-founder and CEO of MC2 Technologies.
Neutralising threats without depleting defences
The MAJES DFB6 is designed to establish a protective shield around naval vessels through electronic jamming. One of its key objectives is to avoid deploying expensive missiles against low-cost drones, while reducing the risk of saturation when the number of attacking drones exceeds available defences. “In asymmetric warfare, using an expensive missile to destroy a drone worth €1,000 makes little economic sense. That is precisely what MAJES helps avoid,” Gaquière explains.
This approach forms part of a broader C-UAS architecture. MC2 Technologies is also developing so-called “cognitive” jammers, designed to distinguish hostile drones from friendly platforms and prevent interference with the latter. Jamming can also immobilise a drone in flight, facilitating its neutralisation by other means.
The company also offers BLAST, an intelligent mobile jamming system that disrupts drone communications and navigation systems. The solution was evaluated during the French Navy’s Wildfire exercise, with results that the company described as promising.
From operational trials to international ambitions
For MC2 Technologies, exercises conducted with the armed forces are essential for testing equipment under real-world conditions and adapting to end users’ requirements. R&D, combined with operational feedback, allows the company to keep pace with evolving threats. “This development process, bringing together our R&D activities, end users and trials under real-world conditions, is truly the three-part approach required to deliver products that are fully state of the art,” says Gaquière.
The MAJES DFB6’s display in the DGA exhibition area at Euronaval 2026 represents significant recognition for the company. “Through the armed forces, the DGA recognises the relevance and performance of our MAJES DFB6 product,” the CEO observes. He views this recognition as both an honour and an opportunity to raise MC2 Technologies’ profile beyond the French armed forces.
For 2026 and 2027, the company’s ambitions are firmly focused on export markets. “We now want to take French expertise beyond our own national armed forces.” MC2 Technologies therefore intends to promote its technologies to other European armed forces and, more broadly, to international customers.
- Linda Verhaeghe
