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Islamic State fighters are posing a growing threat to U.S. and Iraqi forces by deploying small commercial drones armed with improvised explosives devices or spy cameras that can evade detection, according to the Pentagon. The threat led the Defense Department office charged with monitoring and countering improvised explosive devices
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Saab has announced that it has made upgrades to the ability of its Giraffe surface radars to detect both UAVs and stealth-cloaked aircraft. When a conventional military aircraft enters the range of most radar systems, the speed at which it is travelling, its altitude, and its size all make
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Poland’s Ministry of Defense has signed a contract for the deployment of non-kinetic countermeasures against unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during the upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw. Bids to provide the services were due June 28, the ministry’s Armament Inspectorate said in a statement. The procurement is related
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Following the successful completion of tests in 2015, Rohde & Schwarz has debuted its new R&S ARDRONIS localisation and denial suite, a scalable system designed to detect and protect against the threat posed by small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in the 400 MHz to 5.8 GHz
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DeTect hs announced the release of the free public version of the DroneWatcher app that makes smartphones and tablets using the Android operating system into detectors for consumer drones and small unmanned aerial vehicles. The DroneWatcher app detects, tracks, alerts and records information on 95% of commercially available drones using
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The MITRE Corporation has named the eight finalists who will compete in its Countering Unauthorized Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) Challenge live flight competition in August. The live flight tests will determine the winners of a $100,000 prize package. The finalists are: * DroneTracker system from DeDrone, Inc., Kassel, Germany,
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Lockheed Martin engineers are collaborating with customers and academia to research, develop and implement the technology that will detect and defeat swarms. “We are currently developing a 60-kilowatt system that combines multiple fiber lasers to generate the high power weapon beam,” said Rob Afzal, senior fellow with Lockheed Martin’
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The British team that created AUDS (Anti-UAV Defence System), the world's first production-ready and fully integrated counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) has extended its exclusive partnership in North Americawith Liteye Systems, Inc., in Centennial, Colorado. Liteye has been leading the AUDS sales drive in the
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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has revealed the Drone Guard - a new system for drone detection, identification and flight disruption. The IAI said that it has recently begun to sell this system to some customers, after it was also successfully tested in scenarios of simultaneous drone attacks. The Drone Guard is
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The MITRE Corporation has named the eight finalists who will compete in its Countering Unauthorized Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) Challenge live flight competition in August. The live flight tests will determine the winners of a $100,000 prize package. The finalists are: * DroneTracker system from DeDrone, Inc., Kassel, Germany,
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The world's first fully integrated detect-track-disrupt-defeat Anti-UAV Defence System (AUDS) - developed by a trio of British companies including Blighter Surveillance Systems, Chess Dynamics and Enterprise Control Systems, and integrated/supported in North America by Liteye Systems Inc. - has been selected by the United States
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MBDA Deutschland showcased a new laser-based system for countering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at the ILA Airshow in Berlin on 1 June. The 'laser effector' is a 360-degree defensive solution that can be integrated on both land and sea platforms using standard interfaces. Although billed primarily