By mid-2023 partner ministries were treating small drones as a day-one threat to ammunition points and fuel farms. Bastion deployed early NetGuard kits—RF detection, X-band cue radar, and directional electronic attack—around selected logistics depots for evaluation and local defense drills.
Bastion technicians advised; partner forces owned employment and engagement authority. The company’s public line stayed careful: protect sites and people by detecting and disrupting hostile UAS, not by promising a perfect shield.
After-action notes stressed blue-force UAS deconfliction and spectrum discipline near civilian corridors—constraints that still shape NetGuard software releases.
Those depot jobs became the reference architecture for the 2025 multi-year NetGuard framework.