Sierra Nevada’s Counter UAS Technology Showcased

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) successfully showcased its SkyCAP counter Unmanned Aerial System (CUAS) capability recently at tactical demonstrations for the United States Government (USG). The exercises, which took place in April and May, validated SkyCAP as a viable and effective system solution for lightweight dismounted, on-the-move tactical vehicle platforms, and fixed-site infrastructure protection.

SNC, whose Electronic Warfare (EW) technology is proven in critical environments worldwide, wrapped up a Black Dart CUAS Joint exercise this month at Eglin Air Force Base. The exercise was based on expeditionary, fixed-site and on-the-move CUAS technology.

In April, SNC sent engineers to Yuma, Arizona, to perform multiple UAS defeat missions supporting Joint Service operational requirements. Missions included detecting, tracking, identifying and defeating UAS threats representative of what U.S. and coalition forces face in forward deployed locations.

To meet USG requirements, SNC leveraged and adapted its currently operationally deployed, dismounted Advanced EW System – Modular (AEWS-M) based system.  This new multifunction variant is known as SkyCAP. The new system provides superior UAS identification and radio frequency (RF) defeat performance. SkyCAP continues to exceed all of the users’ threshold operational requirements. Performance of the SkyCAP dismounted system has demonstrated its immediate readiness and relevance to the Joint Force for dismounted and expeditionary CUAS protection.

Integrated with industry-leading tactical radar detection and electro-optical infrared (EO/IR) sensors, the exercises validated SkyCAP as a viable system solution for fixed-site security, critical infrastructure protection and vehicular platform integration with on-the-move detection, tracking, identification and defeat.

Source: Press Release

2 comments

  1. How can it be safe for anyone to wear a jammer? Radiating their head everytime it’s used. What is the Safe range. It can’t be on your body. Any HERP study done on it?

    1. microwave exposure has been long studied, only comparable effect is heating, which means for this jammer transmitting at 10W? 20W? is practically no effect. You use a cell phone at your ear everyday all day transmitting at about 3W

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