Despite being a relatively new industry, counterdrone technology (C-UAS) sees rising demand for drone defense capabilities in almost all industries. Airports, critical infrastructure, and large public venues have quickly become prominent markets for C-UAS next to the military, law enforcement, and prisons. The advances in drone technology, unfortunately, also turn it into a new platform and delivery method for conventional threats such as payloads and surveillance. Malicious and non-malicious UAS attacks put said technology in a bad spotlight. Combined with the display of drone capabilities in war zones across the globe, the need to protect personnel and critical assets with layered and integrated counterdrone protection systems rises at an urgent pace.
The primary objective of a C-UAS operation is to have situational awareness and protect their airspace. Mitigating drone threats can be achieved by stopping said drones via hacking/takeover, jamming, or kinetic means or by locating and disrupting the operator. In the provision of counterdrone protection, the technology uses Radio Frequency (RF), radars, acoustic hardware, optics, and multi-sensor systems as its drone detection methods. Advances are being made in all methods to increase accuracy, detection parameters, and effectiveness in all types of operations.
Defeat and mitigation solutions available in the counterdrone space today include soft-kill and hard-kill or kinetic solutions. Soft-kill solutions involve methods that do not intentionally damage the UAS physically, such as RF jamming, whereas hard-kill solutions physically affect the UAS with another object, projectile, or directed energy. As C-UAS systems are generally deployed in dismounted, vehicle-based, and fixed-site operations, it is essential to select the right type of equipment for the job.
DroneShield Ltd is an Australian/US publicly listed company specialising in counterdrone protection technology development. As the pioneer in counterdrone defence technology development, DroneShield aims to address three primary threat categories – nuisance activity, ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance), and payload delivery. We have set the global standard with a layered approach to counterdrone, with cost-effective mission-specific solution sets for fixed site, vehicular or shipboard, and handheld. In the military setting, our counterdrone defence solutions cater to heavy armor and vehicles, littoral vessels, military bases, critical infrastructure, and integrated soldier systems for the protection of squads and individual warfighters.
DroneShield revolutionises the drone defense industry by focusing on the development of RF Sensing, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Sensor Fusion, Electronic Warfare, Rapid Prototyping, and MIL-SPEC manufacturing. We are committed to providing world-class drone defense systems for the Military, Government, Law Enforcement, Critical Infrastructure, Commercial, and VIPs across the world.
In October 2022, DroneShield was recommended by the U.S. DoD’s Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) as part of the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) joint solution for Counter-UAS as a Service (CaaS). The JCO formalized its recommendation of three approved solutions after a thorough evaluation at Yuma Proving Ground earlier this year, leveraging several of DroneShield’s dismounted, mobile, and fixed-site detection sensors and electronic countermeasures. This recommendation follows the recent $1.8 million DroneGun MKIII acquisition by the U.S. DoD in September 2022.
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