One of Europe’s finest recognized counter-drone protection consortiums is able to hit the street after enhancing its design for deployment on navy and safety autos.
Anti-UAV Defense System not too long ago introduced new upgrades to its permitting the answer to “more effectively defeat swarm attacks by malicious unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), including long-range winged drones,” in accordance with an organization press launch.
The British consortium contains Blighter Surveillance Systems, Chess Dynamics and Enterprise Control Systems, a gaggle that was chosen final 12 months by the FAA to hitch its drone protection program in a partnership with American firm Liteye Systems.
“We are committed to evolving the AUDS platform to meet the needs of military and security forces as they respond to the growing threat of malicious and errant UAVs,” Chess Systems CEO Graham Beall mentioned. “These latest enhancements will consolidate our position as one the leading providers of a fully integrated strategic non-kinetic electronic [anti-drone] system.”
AUDS is a single-user resolution with an intuitive interface and may detect, monitor, determine and defeat a drone in roughly 15 seconds at a variety of as much as 6 miles. With latest upgrades, AUDS could be deployed as a speedy “on-the-pause” anti-drone platform to cease rogue UAVs from attacking a short lived base, cell drive, convoy or main infrastructure facility. By making the system extra rugged, AUDS gives customers the choice of loading it simply on to a car equivalent to a “Mercedes-Benz Sprinter-style van, as well as on semi-portable containers.”
AUDS now ships in three configurations – moveable/rooftop, rugged field-mast and a set floor system.
“We have continued to refine our advanced RF inhibition capabilities to meet identified changes in the threat, enabling additional attributes designed to engage with some of the longer range fixed winged drones that have appeared over the last 12 months,” mentioned Colin Bullock, CEO of Enterprise Control Systems.
“Our specialist RF engineers have also further fine-tuned some advanced techniques to even more effectively defeat coordinated, multi-drone swarm attacks made up of mixed drone types approaching in complex mission scenarios.”
A report launched earlier this 12 months predicted the anti-drone market will develop to $1.85 billion by 2024. As drone use grows, many public companies and firms are searching for anti-drone options to cease drones from flying over restricted or unsafe areas equivalent to wildfire zones, nuclear energy vegetation, prisons and airports.