Jon Excell

Drone defence system could thwart UAV terror attacks

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UK engineers have unveiled technology designed to identify and disable rogue UAVs

Designed by three British firms - Blighter Surveillance Systems, Chess Dynamics and Enterprise Control Systems - the Anti-UAV Defence System (AUDS) has been developed in response to growing fears that drones could be used to mount terror attacks.

Launched at last month’s DSEI show in London, the system is able to detect a drone five miles (8 km) away using electronic scanning radar, track it using infrared and daylight cameras and specialist software before disrupting the flight using an inhibitor to block the radio signals that control it.

Key features of the system include a quad band inhibitor which enables the AUDS operator to disrupt the different licensed telemetry bands of commercial drones no matter where in the world they are designed and licensed for use.

The technology can also be used to disrupt the global satellite (GNSS) bands that UAV’s typically require access to in order to fly in an autonomous mode.

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