Fortem Technologies has announced its Fortem DroneHunter counter-drone product will seamlessly integrate with the Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control system (FAAD C2). FAAD C2 was recently announced by the US Army Joint Counter-UAS Office (JCO) as the interim command and control standard for countering small drones.
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Counter-drone company Citadel Defense has secured a contract worth $5 million with the US Department of Defense (DoD). The new contract is for the company’s portable Titan counter-drone system, which will be deployed for small drone threats.
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Counter-drone company Fortem Technologies has formed a strategic alliance with multinational conglomerate Toshiba to work on a drone detection and mitigation system. The Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation also invested $15 million into Fortem Technologies.
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Counter drone company DroneShield has successfully demonstrated its TIPS-C counter-drone solution at a US Air Force Base. The TIPS-C has been produced with Trakka Systems and demonstrated to key decision-makers from a few companies.
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A big player in the counter-drone space, D-Fend Solutions has just released survey results discussing counter-drone measures. The survey found that traditional counter-drone systems – jamming and kinetic – are viewed as being inadequate.
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The FAA has announced that the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport will be one of five to test out its counter-drone tech as it hopes to install it at every airport in the country. The airport has seen drones in the past, making it the perfect place to test the technology.
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Australian counter-drone company DroneShield has posted a video of its DroneSentry-X system in action, taking down a DJI Inspire 2 and two racing drones. The short sub-two-minute video shows how counter-drone systems can remove a threat within seconds.
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A civil defense authority located in the Middle East has successfully removed a drone threat using Black Sage’s counter-drone technology. The rogue drone flew a little too close to a major public event in the region, triggering the system into action.
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DroneShield has partnered with Trakka Systems to combine the detection and situational awareness expertise, creating the TIPS-C counter-drone system. TIPS-C is a mobile system that provides early detection and neutralization of rogue drones in the airspace.
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DroneShield has announced it has rolled out its first machine learning and artificial intelligence-backed detection and classification software to all of its customers. The new software will ensure the response times are faster and that there are fewer false positives.
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Counter-drone company Citadel Defense has announced it has secured a multimillion-dollar government order for its Titan C system. Citadel’s system was chosen after an evaluation took a look at two dozen systems from companies around the world.
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The Japanese Defense Ministry is reportedly beginning research into the use of vehicle-mounted counter-drone lasers to fend off rogue drones. The news comes from sources close to the Japanese government, with an expected arrival date no earlier than 2024.
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Dubai-based Cusp Technologies has developed a new counter-drone system that uses powerful magnets, forcing drones to leave an area. The system essentially creates a magnetic field around an area or object to protect it from rogue drones.
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The Nikola Tesla Airport, located in Belgrade, Serbia, has invested in counter-drone systems from German company Rohde & Schwarz after the number of drone-related incidents at airports worldwide has slowly increased over the last few years.
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Australian counter-drone company DroneShield has announced that it has deployed its counter-drone DroneSentry system at the Altenrhein Airport in Switzerland. The new system will allow the airport to detect and deal with any unauthorized drones in the area.
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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have taken up mobile counter-drone technology orders. The two government departments have turned to North American counter-drone company ELTA to address the U.S.’s need to be able to put up a fight against aerial attacks such as drone swarms.
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Counter-drone technology works in two steps by detecting and then defeating a drone. Today I’ll be looking at how rogue drones are defeated and destroyed, thanks to a recent factbook by Australian counter-drone company DroneShield.
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Counter-drone technology works in two steps by detecting and then defeating a drone. Today I’ll be looking at how rogue drones are detected thanks to a recent factbook by Australian counter-drone company DroneShield.
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Counter drone company D-Fend Solutions has opened its first North American office in McLean, Virginia, to expand its operations and meet the increasing demand for counter-drone products and solutions.
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Counter-drone company Citadel Defense has announced its new AI-powered drone threat detection software for its Titan drone defense systems. Citadel has been working on its AI platform for the last 27 months with successful deployments across multiple combatant commands and hundreds of unique environments.
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DroneShield has partnered with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to produce the next generation of drone detection technology. The partnership has been funded by the New South Wales government to track threats with a convolutional neural network (CNN).
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In a recent live test, the Dutch Army used its latest device, the SMASH Fire Control System from Smart Shooter, to effectively take down drones. The attachment allows drones to be easily detected and shot down with standard rifles.
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UK anti-drone company Drone Defence released its latest product earlier this month, Paladyne E1000MP, a pistol-sized drone gun with a 0.62-mile range. The drone pistol does require a similar-sized control box for it to work correctly.
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DroneShield (ASX:DRO) has announced to its shareholders that it has received an order from a major intelligence Government agency in the Five Eyes alliance. The order is for the company’s famous DroneGun Tactical handheld counter-drone gun.
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