C-UAS
At this year’s International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) in Berlin, the sensor solutions provider HENSOLDT unveils its Xpeller counter-UAV system for the first time in a compact and deployable version called “Xpeller Rapid”. The new configuration combines a radar system, a camera, radio detectors and jammers. The system can either
C-UAS
M-AUDS MATV-HD Orbital ATK, with sub-contractors Liteye, Numerica, and Pratt & Miller, was awarded an $8,499,990 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract on November 1st, 2017 for integrating the mobile-anti unmanned aerial vehicle defense system with a networked low, slow, small, unmanned aerial system integrated defeat system into a mobile platform. One
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Dedrone has announced a partnership with Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), a United States Department of Defense (DoD) organization focused on accelerating commercial technologies to the U.S. military. DIUx and DoD are experimenting with Dedrone’s technology in assessing, measuring, and responding to adversarial UAS threats as they relate
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If a drone is invading your personal privacy you are entitled to shoot it down and aren’t liable for damages, according to new findings by Swiss lawyers. Drones are increasingly popular with private individuals in Switzerland for recreational use and to take aerial videos. But the remote-controlled craft can
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DroneShield Ltd, a provider of drone security solutions, has announced that the Fort Worth Police Department has today confirmed that DroneShield’s products were utilised by the Texas State Department of Public Safety, the Denton County Sheriff, the Fort Worth Police Department, the Texas Forest Service, and the Texas Rangers
Military
The Russian military has been jamming some U.S. military drones operating in the skies over Syria, seriously affecting American military operations, according to four U.S. officials. The Russians began jamming some smaller U.S. drones several weeks ago, the officials said, after a series of suspected chemical weapons
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A Swiss engineer and an Italian entrepreneur were arrested in Rome by the financial crime police for illegally producing and selling anti-drone systems. According to the Italian news agency AdnKronos on Saturday, the so-called “drone ranger” systems were sold to the armed forces of certain Middle Eastern countries. They can
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Australian Police have taken down a suspect drone flying near a Commonwealth Games venue, Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski revealed the bust at a media conference on the Gold Coast. He said a drone flying a few hundred metres from a Games exclusion zone was detected by police on Sunday night.
Weapons Systems
Forty-five unmanned aerial vehicles and drones fell out of the sky during a U.S. Army exercise after Raytheon's advanced high-power microwave and laser dune buggy engaged and destroyed them. These common threats were knocked down during a Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment at the U.S. Army Fires
Business
Airspace Systems has built what it calls “kinetic capture” technologies, which currently consists of a ground-based system that identifies an offending unmanned aircraft, then launches its own drone to chase it down, fire a tethered net at it and carry it away. But the compmay has shifted attention from simply
C-UAS
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced the successful demonstration of their Fencepost acoustic detection system at the U.S. Army’s Fires Center of Excellence annual Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment (MFIX) at Ft. Sill, in Lawton, OK. GA-EMS was invited to participate in the December 2017 event to demonstrate Fencepost
Events
At UMEX 2018, the International Unmanned Systems exhibition in Abu Dhabi, AirShare presented its Overwatch Interceptor-UX, a new solution to counter UAV using a surface-to-air missile able to create high-persistence countermeasure cloud. AirShare is Canadian-based Company with offices in Canada and the United States established to protect critical infrastructure and