The US Air Force has released a video animation of the prototype directed energy weapon used to disable the electronics in drones. The Tactical High Power Operational
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Category: Counter-UAS systems and policies
General Dynamics teams with Dedrone to offer counter drone technology to US government customers
General Dynamics Mission Systems has teamed with counter drone company Dedrone to provide drone detection and drone neutralising capability to US government customers. The partners aim
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DARPA “successfully trials low-cost multi-layer, non-kinetic counter-UAS system”
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) reports that in recent tests at Eglin Air Force Base, DARPA’s Mobile Force Protection (MFP) programme successfully
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NATO to test multiple directed energy weapon anti-drone solutions in October
NATO experts will gather in October this year at the Salto di Quirra military test range in Sardinia, Italy, to test-fire different kinetic and directed
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Dynetics unveils mobile counter-weapon system with capability to engage multiple targets simultaneously
Leidos subsidiary Dynetics has unveiled Enduring Shield, a mobile ground-based weapon system designed to acquire, track, engage and defeat unmanned aircraft systems, cruise missiles, and
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DroneShield releases second generation DroneOptID 2.0 drone detection software
Counter drone company DroneShield has released a second generation version of its optical Articfical Intelligence/Machine Learning based software DroneOptID 2.0. According to a company press
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Korean defence department awards USD21.8m counter drone contract to Hanwha Group
Korea’s Agency for Defense Development has awarded a 24.3 billion won (USD21.8 million) contract to Hanwha Group to develop laser beam counter drone weapons according
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Turkey closes Diyarbakir Airport for a month after hostile drone attack
According to an article published in The Times on 25 May 2021, Turkey has been forced to close a large civil-military airport in its Kurdish-majority
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WhiteFox launches STRATUS cloud-based drone detection service to protect critical infrastructure
US airspace security company WhiteFox has launched a cloud-based system to detect and track drones called STRATUS. WhiteFox has adapted its core technology that stops
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French laser counter drone technology effective over 1km distance
According to Drone DJ, French company Compagnie Industrielle des Lasers (CILAS) is testing a laser that can bring down a drone flying at 30 mph
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