Pretoria-based Centauri Technologies has announced that its TriAD counter-drone system successfully completed integrated, multi-layered counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) capability trials in a vehicle-mounted configuration.
“Our recent trials validated Centauri’s TriAD system, which fuses radar, RF (radio frequency) and electro-optical sensors with AI decision-support to detect, prioritise and defeat hostile drones in real time with multiple hard-kill effectors,” said Xander Louw, chief product officer. The system was shown publicly for the first time in February this year at the IDEX2025 international defence exhibition in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
“Since then, we’ve refined the TriAD system’s capabilities, leading to the extensive series of controlled proof-of-concept trials,” Louw stated. “These are designed to demonstrate end-to-end detection, tracking, identification and defeat of small unmanned aerial systems from one interoperable system.”
The tests combined sensors with Centauri’s remotely operated weapon stations (ROWS) and a unified Command and Control stack. This showed how a single vehicle-integrated solution can provide effective, layered protection for convoys, bases and high-value assets. While TriAD is developed as a sensor agnostic platform to integrate various detection and tracking sensors, the remotely operated weapon stations (ROWS) are Centauri proprietary systems.
They comprise the CRx-7 (7.62 mm LMG), CRx-30 (30×113 mm cannon) and CRx-40 (six-shot 40 mm grenade launcher) remote weapon stations, providing a graduated kinetic response.
The trials showed that tracking from the 360° radars matched with RF detections and EO/IR imagery from the optical sensors significantly reduces false positives, thus enabling speedy identification and fast confident engagement decisions, said the company.
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