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DroneShield Ltd, a provider of drone security solutions, has announced that the Fort Worth Police Department has today confirmed that DroneShield’s products were utilised by the Texas State Department of Public Safety, the Denton County Sheriff, the Fort Worth Police Department, the Texas Forest Service, and the Texas Rangers for the protection of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series at the Texas Motor Speedway. Continue reading
The Russian military has been jamming some U.S. military drones operating in the skies over Syria, seriously affecting American military operations, according to four U.S. officials. Continue reading
A Swiss engineer and an Italian entrepreneur were arrested in Rome by the financial crime police for illegally producing and selling anti-drone systems. Continue reading
Australian Police have taken down a suspect drone flying near a Commonwealth Games venue, Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski revealed the bust at a media conference on the Gold Coast.
Forty-five unmanned aerial vehicles and drones fell out of the sky during a U.S. Army exercise after Raytheon’s advanced high-power microwave and laser dune buggy engaged and destroyed them. These common threats were knocked down during a Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment at the U.S. Army Fires Center of Excellence. Continue reading
Airspace Systems has built what it calls “kinetic capture” technologies, which currently consists of a ground-based system that identifies an offending unmanned aircraft, then launches its own drone to chase it down, fire a tethered net at it and carry it away. Continue reading
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced the successful demonstration of their Fencepost acoustic detection system at the U.S. Army’s Fires Center of Excellence annual Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment (MFIX) at Ft. Sill, in Lawton, OK. Continue reading
At UMEX 2018, the International Unmanned Systems exhibition in Abu Dhabi, AirShare presented its Overwatch Interceptor-UX, a new solution to counter UAV using a surface-to-air missile able to create high-persistence countermeasure cloud. AirShare is Canadian-based Company with offices in Canada and the United States established to protect critical infrastructure and people from wayward and malicious UAVs (“drones”). Continue reading