As part of a major product demonstration on the Airbus airfield in Hamburg-Finkenwerder, HENSOLDT, an independent sensor house, provided proof of the excellent performance of its Xpeller counter-UAV system when it comes to protecting airports and critical infrastructure.
HENSOLDT demonstrated counter-UAV measures using a combination of radar, RF and optical sensors and a targeted jammer to representatives from the police, industrial companies, airport operators and armed forces. For this, the individual elements of the system were positioned in such a way as to ensure optimum surveillance of the whole area. This involved seamlessly integrating Xpeller into the airfield’s infrastructure and proving its compatibility with all the other local systems. Xpeller also managed to reliably detect UAVs starting from different locations. The visitors considered it to be a particular success that the HENSOLDT system was able to reliably detect even extremely small UAVs at a distance of several kilometres and to identify them as threats.
The modular Xpeller product family includes various sensors such as radar, camera and radio frequency detectors as well as direction finders and jammers. Xpeller uses sensors to detect and identify a drone and assess its threat potential at ranges from a few hundred metres up to several kilometres. Based on real-time analyses of the control signals, a jammer then interrupts the link between drone and pilot or interferes with its navigation. The modular Xpeller system concept relies on the selection of individual devices from the product family depending on customer requirements and local conditions.
The company comprises the security and defense electronics activities of the Airbus Group, which were spun off from the group in 2017.
Source: Press Release
Excellent. You have now severed the link between the drone and its operator and jammed its GPS. if it has no idea where it is and has no way to be controlled, it is now going to become something that is going to fall out of the sky on someone’s head or crash through their windshield as they go down the road. BRILLIANT.
If some stadium owner disables a drone because It was flying within a few clicks of their monument to crass commercialism, I really hope the owner or (when the inevitable happens) victim of such a careless act sues them into oblivion.
To randomly start swatting Drones from the sky is not only wrong, but unconscionable. If a UAV responding to a 911 call cant deliver a AED to a victim because some football game is being played that is not going to go well in the media.
That it supposedly determines threat prior to acting is rather doubtful, While it might be able to establish a rough course, it does not and can not determine what would have happen in the seconds after it decides to “Take Action”: