GBAD DEMO DAYS 2025
Ground Based Air Defense Demo Days was an arena for industry and academia to demonstrate counter-UAS capabilities to the Finnish Defense Force and NATO allies in a very demanding environment on the west coast of Finland 25-27 November 2025.
GBAD Demo Days was hosted by Inspector of Ground Based Air Defense, Colonel Mano-Mikael Nokelainen.
Event focused especially on countering NATO class 1 unmanned aerial systems.
Areas of Interest:
Areas of interest include man-portable and vehicle mounted solutions.
- Drone detection
- Drone tracking
- Drone classification and identification
- C2 capabilites
– Airspace situational awareness
– Warning systems
– Sensor fusion
- C-UAS technologies
– Radars
– Handheld RF analyzers
– Acoustic sensors
– Machine learning / AI solutions for enhanced decision making.
Initial timeline and key dates
(changes might apply)
- 26.6. – 15.8.2025
Experiment nominations and mini-expo requests by industry - 29.8.2025
Decisions released to industry - Week 39 – 40
Initial Planning Conference / Teams (approx. 2 h) - Week 40 – 44
Experiment planning meetings 1on1 (XDS and companies) - Week 44 – 45 Final Planning Conference / Teams (approx. 2 h)
- 21. – 23.11.2025
Freight entry
- 24.11.2025
Experiment rigging, test flights, mini-expo preparations - 25.11.2025
GBAD Days, experiments and mini-expo - 26.11.2025
GBAD Days, experiments and mini-expo - 27.11.2025
De-rigging (GBAD Days experiment Reserve day for experiments
ie. bad weather) - 28.11. – 1.12.2025
Freight pick-up
Colonel Mano-Mikael Nokelainen
Inspector of Ground Based Air Defense
Army Command
Anssi Aikio
GBAD Demo Days Director
Program Manager, XD Solutions
