Fortem has completed an autonomous 5-vs-5 drone intercept with safe capture of every target, demonstrating a scalable counter-swarm defence capability.
In a live test, five DroneHunter® F700 interceptors operating under the command of a single AI-powered SkyDome® software platform intercepted and safely captured five incoming drones, each flying an autonomous, pre-programmed attack mission. SkyDome autonomously planned, sequenced and coordinated all five intercepts, with no human involvement.
The demonstration used Fortem’s fifth-generation DroneHunter F700 interceptor, which features improvements in autonomous decision-making, manoeuvring and operational reliability. The test also validated new upgrades to SkyDome’s path-planning engine, which now accounts for complex airspace constraints and dynamically deconflicts multiple DroneHunters using a combination of airspace separation techniques.
The United States’ defence department has selected DroneHunter as its first operational purchase under the Replicator-2 initiative, a fast-track programme designed to accelerate the fielding of deployable counter-drone systems.
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