A shoulder-fired weapon that zaps drones with radio waves and looks like something out of a sci-fi movie has been spotted at a U.S. military base in Iraq.
Category Archives: C-UAS
Airbus & Dedrone Join Forces against illegal Drones
Airbus DS Electronics and Border Security (EBS) and Dedrone, San Francisco, have concluded a cooperation agreement to combine their skills to protect lower airspace from small drones. The partners intend jointly to offer drones defense systems that can reliably detect and defend against the unauthorized entry of drones in critical airspaces.
Iran’s New Radar System Detects Tiny Flying Objects
Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli announced that a highly advanced home-made radar system will be deployed in Northeastern Iran soon with the capability of detecting and tracing very small flying objects. Continue reading
Pentagon Seeks Funding to Counter ISIS IED Drones
Islamic State fighters are posing a growing threat to U.S. and Iraqi forces by deploying small commercial drones armed with improvised explosives devices or spy cameras that can evade detection, according to the Pentagon. Continue reading
Saab Enhances Counter-UAV Abilities of Giraffe Radar
Saab has announced that it has made upgrades to the ability of its Giraffe surface radars to detect both UAVs and stealth-cloaked aircraft. Continue reading
Poland Orders Counter-Drone System to Secure NATO Summit
Poland’s Ministry of Defense has signed a contract for the deployment of non-kinetic countermeasures against unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during the upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw. Bids to provide the services were due June 28, the ministry’s Armament Inspectorate said in a statement. Continue reading
ARDRONIS Radio Monitoring and Counter-UAV System
Following the successful completion of tests in 2015, Rohde & Schwarz has debuted its new R&S ARDRONIS localisation and denial suite, a scalable system designed to detect and protect against the threat posed by small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in the 400 MHz to 5.8 GHz frequency spectrum. Continue reading
Detect Drones ? – Now There’s an App for That !
DeTect hs announced the release of the free public version of the DroneWatcher app that makes smartphones and tablets using the Android operating system into detectors for consumer drones and small unmanned aerial vehicles. Continue reading