Leonardo DRS, Inc. has won first place in a United States defence department counter drone competition by demonstrating an advanced electronic warfare system that can be integrated into the company’s range of counter-uncrewed aerial systems (C-UAS) capabilities.
During a demonstration event hosted by the DoD’s Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO), Leonardo DRS demonstrated the Ring C-UxS system that employs proprietary, advanced radio frequency-based electronic warfare capabilities to detect, identify and defeat enemy drones and autonomous systems, from air, land, or sea.
Leonardo DRS and its technology partner, Regulus, reported strong results from the demonstration that focused on the dismounted detect-identify-track-defeat of group 1 and 2 UAS. During the demonstration, Leonardo DRS successfully employed the system to detect, identify and defeat mock enemy drones with its radio frequency-based electronic warfare capabilities. The demonstration gave industry the chance to inform the JCO of new capabilities that are able to operate in a contested electromagnetic environment.
The Ring system uses radio frequency (RF) detection, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) techniques, and RF datalink manipulation to counter both commercial and military uncrewed threats.
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