A serious Australian counter-drone firm has introduced a win within the warfare towards rogue drone flights after police used an anti-UAS “gun” to down an errant flight over a significant sporting occasion.
The Queensland Police Service used DroneProtect’s DroneGun throughout the latest XXI Commonwealth Games in Brisbane to neutralize a quadcopter breaching an aerial exclusion zone.
DroneGun discharges radio alerts that may take management of a rogue drone, bringing the UAV to the gun consumer and disabling video capabilities.
The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games welcomes greater than 6,600 athletes and group officers from 71 Commonwealth nations and territories to the Gold Coast and occasion cities Brisbane, Cairns and Townsville.
The largest sporting occasion to be staged in Australia this decade, the Games characteristic a big built-in sports activities program comprising 18 sports activities and 7 para-sports.
“Much of the use of our products is not publicly-known. Security and military agencies rarely comment on deployments and specific incidents. We are proud to have secured the skies for the public at the Games, as is evident from this incident which became public,” DroneProtect CEO Oleg Vornik stated.
According to MYGC.com, the drone pilot can be referred to Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority.
“I have to reinforce that there is currently no specific threat against the Games or against anything in Queensland,” Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski advised reporters.
“But, of course, we live in a probable threat environment, so we have to be prepared for the unexpected.”
DroneProtect additionally deployed its merchandise at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.
DroneProtect’s different options embrace DroneSentinel and DroneSentry. DroneSentinel is a multi-prone detection product designed to find rogue drones. DroneSentry detects and neutralizes unmanned aerial bandits utilizing jamming expertise. In November, DroneProtect demonstrated each merchandise for governmental end-users at its Virginia workplace.
Currently, DroneProtect offers detection protection for the Boston Marathon. The firm additionally scored a significant European victory final 12 months, defending the Davos Economic Forum in Switzerland.
A latest research predicts the drone mitigation (or anti-drone) market will to develop to a billion-dollar business inside six years with predicted compound annual development charge of 23.89 p.c throughout 2017-22.