gallium defense drone detection radar

Gallium Defense profile

By Jonathan Tauzerus · reviewed against primary sources · updated November 4, 2026.

Gallium Defense, also spelled Gallium Defence, is a private Paris-founded startup that came out of stealth around 3 November 2026 with a €7.1 million seed round for its GDS-10 drone detection radar.

What Gallium Defense does

Gallium Defense is developing the GDS-10, a 3D X-band AESA radar with a software-defined, AI-native architecture, in two versions: one for critical infrastructure operators and one for armed forces. The company says it is designed for mass production at a fraction of the cost of existing systems, a claim this profile cannot verify. The company says orders open in the first quarter of 2027.

The product lines that define the company for research purposes:

GDS-10 drone detection radar

This profile is qualitative by design. It carries no share price, no price target, no valuation multiple, and no rating — those change faster than any page can honestly track, and the filings linked below are the authoritative source for them.

Gallium Defense drone lineup

The current public product record does not identify a complete aircraft lineup.

No complete-aircraft offering is catalogued for this company; it is tracked here as an unmanned-systems enabler.

Statuses are editorial classifications from the company’s current public catalog: active means currently presented for sale, delivery, or program work; development means publicly disclosed but not a mature production offering; legacy means retained for historical or installed-fleet coverage.

Recent contracts & awards

A dated log of the specific contracts, orders, funding, and deployments reported for Gallium Defense, each tied to its primary source. This is a record of what was announced — a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, so read each source before treating a figure as revenue. No figure appears here unless a source reported it.

FundingNov 3, 2026€7.1M
Gallium Defense raises €7.1 million seed round to scale affordable drone detection
Gallium Defense, founded in Paris in April 2026, said it raised a €7.1 million seed round led by Keen Venture Partners and 360 Capital, with Omnes Capital and Polytechnique Ventures participating.
The company says the money will go to industrializing its first products, growing the team, training AI models and running civil and military demonstrations; it says GDS-10 orders open in the first quarter of 2027.
Gallium Defense — seed round announcement (EIN Presswire)

Is Gallium Defense going public?

Gallium Defense is a privately held startup founded in April 2026 and has no ticker. The €7.1 million seed round is venture funding, not an IPO; watch company announcements for later rounds.

Where Gallium Defense sits in the value chain

Gallium Defense is a pure-play: unmanned systems are the business rather than one line inside it, so the P&L moves with drone demand and has little else to cushion a slow procurement year.

Its disclosed activity spans counter-UAS. That placement is the single most useful thing to fix in your head before reading any coverage, because the same headline means different things at different layers: a large platform award is transformative for a pure-play, material but diluted for a diversified contractor, and only indirectly relevant to a component supplier whose exposure arrives later as build-rate demand.

Retail coverage routinely applies one story to all three layers at once. For the layer-by-layer comparison across the sector, see the drone stocks research shortlist and the list of publicly traded drone companies.

What to watch

The signals worth tracking are structural, not price-based — they tell you whether the business is changing shape, which is what eventually shows up in the numbers.

Whether orders open in the first quarter of 2027 as the company says, and whether any customer is named.
Independent test results for the claimed 10 km detection range against Class 1 and FPV drones, which so far come from the company.
The price of the GDS-10 once published, against the company's 'fraction of competing systems' claim.

How to research Gallium Defense

Every question below has one authoritative source, and using the wrong source is how most retail research goes wrong.

Research question	Where the answer lives	What to look for
Is there anything to buy?	SEC EDGAR full-text search	Whether any registration statement exists at all — absent one, there is no public security.
Is the government work real?	Official DoD contract announcements	Awarding service and scope of work, rather than a company-issued announcement.
What is the acquisition pathway?	DIU and DARPA program pages	Whether the work runs through non-traditional agreements or a conventional program of record.
How would exposure even work?	Fund holdings disclosures	Whether any listed vehicle discloses a stake — indirect exposure is usually thin and unstated.

The company's announcement, published via EIN Presswire, names Keen Venture Partners and 360 Capital as lead investors, with Omnes Capital and Polytechnique Ventures participating, and Eric Fournier, Florian Lemoine and Robin Mandel as founders.
Spec figures such as 360° azimuth, 90° elevation and 10 km range are company claims, not independent measurements.

One failure mode is worth naming explicitly: a company announcement describing a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, and the two are easy to conflate because they use the same vocabulary. Check the official record before treating either as revenue. Our full approach is documented on the methodology page.

Gallium Defense FAQ

What does Gallium Defense do?

Gallium Defense is developing the GDS-10, a 3D X-band AESA radar with a software-defined, AI-native architecture, in two versions: one for critical infrastructure operators and one for armed forces.

Is Gallium Defense publicly traded?

Gallium Defense is not publicly traded, so there is no ticker to buy. Any claim otherwise should be verified against SEC EDGAR before it is believed.

What should investors watch with Gallium Defense?

Whether orders open in the first quarter of 2027 as the company says, and whether any customer is named.

Where can I research Gallium Defense directly?

Go to the primary sources: Gallium Defense — seed round announcement (EIN Presswire). Avoid aggregator summaries when the filing itself is available.