Update: OSL's C-UAS system operational at Evenes Air Station

A Norwegian F-35 returning to Evenes Air Station after identifying and shadowing a Russian Ilyushin Il-20M on 11 March 2026. (Janes/Tamara Rozouvan)

The counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) installed at Evenes Air Station in northern Norway is made by UK-based company Operational Solutions Ltd. (OSL), a UK-based subsidiary of Danish company Terma, the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (Forsvarsmateriell or NDMA) confirmed in a 12 March press release.

OSL's C-UAS at Evenes is identical to the one installed at Ørland Air Station, according to the release. OSL's first integrated C-UAS is now operational at Evenes, OSL said in an 18 March social media post. At both Evenes and Ørland, the C-UAS will be integrated with existing air defence systems, according to the company. The C-UAS consists of a command and control (C2) system, sensors, and effectors - both kinetic and non-kinetic, OSL said in a 17 March press release.

“The system is new, we just installed it, and we are testing it during the [Norwegian-led NATO] exercise [‘Cold Response 2026'],” Commander 133 Air Wing, Colonel Hans Martin Steiro told Janes on 11 March at Evenes Air StationOnce the testing is finished, the new system is set to become operational at the Evenes Air Station, he added.

In August 2025, the NDMA awarded a NOK938 million (USD97.2 million), four-year, contract to OSL to deliver an unnamed C-UAS to the Norwegian Armed Forces. At the time OSL said, “The first order concerns anti-drone capacity for Ørland Air Station.” According to the 12 March press release from the NDMA it only took two months before the first C-UAS was in place at Ørland and more deliveries are planned.