Loads of army operations are utilizing drones in fight, however right here’s a brand new product that’s — in a method — the antithesis of that. U.S.-based airspace safety firm Dedrone in the present day publicly launched a counterdrone product referred to as DedroneTactical.
DedroneTactical merges Dedrone’s comparatively lengthy (in drone years) historical past of drone-tracking and takedown synthetic intelligence and sensor know-how into a conveyable bundle designed particularly for federal prospects and warfighters — and it comes at a time of rising demand for extra moveable and quick-to-use multi-sensor, counterdrone tech.
Drones have lengthy been utilized in army operations, and their use is rising. In actual fact, this month Ukrainian forces are set to obtain 200 long-range, high-speed FPV (first-person view) drones to help their battle in opposition to Russia. These FPV UAS are being fulfilled by Puerto Rico-based army drone and know-how large Pink Cat. And different well-liked army drones embody the Teal 2 (additionally made by Pink Cat).
However slightly than the acronym for drones, UAS, name this new product from DedroneTactical a sort of CsUAS (counter small uncrewed aerial system). DedroneTactical is a type of CsUAS response equipment that brings modular sensor-fusion and mitigation flexibility into the sector, with know-how together with cameras, radar and Radio Frequency (RF) detect and defeat.
What to find out about DedroneTactical
So what’s it, precisely? It’s a conveyable, plug-and-play equipment that leverages Dedrone’s autonomous, AI-driven command and management (C2) platform referred to as DedroneTracker.ai, and it places it into what Dedrone refers to as “an end-to-end CsUAS kill chain.”
DedroneTactical consists of two masted kits, one ruggedized laptop computer and related peripherals. Every equipment is designed to be arrange and brought down with out the necessity for extra instruments — all inside about quarter-hour.
DedroneTactical’s Base Equipment helps a variety of ruggedized RF sensors, and likewise helps BlueHalo Titan. All sensors are mounted on a single tactical mast and will be expanded to incorporate extra distant DedroneSensors through wi-fi community hyperlinks. The Prolonged Equipment provides a second mast with radar and digital camera to allow each non-RF drone detection for autonomously navigated drones and in addition to visible affirmation.
It was created in collaboration with federal companies all over the world. And Dedrone claims that its new resolution has helped pave the way in which for year-over-year development of greater than 300%, together with a rise in U.S. authorities company contracts. In actual fact, Dedrone says it has already bought greater than 100 DedroneTactical kits to U.S. and international governments who work on the federal stage (as a result of whereas the general public launch is new, the product has been going out to sure prospects already).
“Via this multi-sensor detect and defeat resolution, DedroneTactical delivers our superior AI-driven sensor-fusion know-how in an expeditionary format, enabling operators to make selections shortly and extra precisely,” mentioned Aaditya Devarakonda, CEO of Dedrone, in a ready assertion. “We stay up for persevering with to innovate with, and in service of, all our federal prospects and warfighters working to safe airspaces and defend folks, property and knowledge from the specter of drones.”
DedroneTactical works in coordination with the corporate’s separate DedroneTracker.ai C2 resolution. And whereas DedroneTracker.ai itself isn’t new, it’s been a confirmed solution to ship quick, correct CsUAS options.
That product takes AI-driven sensor-fusion capabilities and guarantees to almost-entirely remove false positives and elevate excessive menace rating targets to the operator, in a real “man-on-the-loop” format. In concept, it permits for more practical, speedy and correct responses to potential drone threats. With each merchandise mixed, prospects have a “broader airspace safety resolution.”
The corporate says that, in testing, DedroneTracker.ai’s AI-driven picture recognition and autonomous detection engine carried out at an estimated 95% accuracy stage.
What to find out about Dedrone
Dedrone is essentially thought of the market chief in good airspace safety. Its prospects embody greater than 50 federal authorities companies all over the world, together with 4 of the G7 nation governments and 30 separate entities inside the U.S. federal authorities. Dedrone additionally has a reasonably vital partnership with the Protection Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), an arm of the U.S. Division of Protection (DoD) targeted on rising applied sciences inside the U.S. army to supply situational consciousness of drone exercise over protected websites.
Dedrone first launched in 2014 in San Francisco, however is now headquartered simply outdoors of Washington, D.C. (presumably to place it nearer to the headquarters of U.S. federal companies, who make up an enormous buyer base for the corporate). It’s additionally received places of work elsewhere on the earth together with Phoenix, Arizona; Columbus, Ohio; London and Kassel, Germany.
The corporate claims to construct the one resolution that gives steady, autonomous interrogation and verification of drones. In brief, it builds merchandise for federal and industrial prospects to extra simply detect, monitor, determine, analyze, and mitigate drone threats at websites together with jails, airports and demanding infrastructure.
One among its main non-military tasks is a partnership with the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct analysis about basic airport counterdrone operations utilizing Dedrone’s detection, monitoring, identification and mitigation merchandise. The analysis is being finished at two U.S. airports: one is New Jersey’s Atlantic Metropolis Worldwide Airport, and the second airport (which solely received concerned this 12 months) has not been formally disclosed.
Dedrone’s different merchandise embody DedroneDefender precision jammer, which makes use of narrow-band jamming at a MIL-STD-810H army commonplace.
And Dedrone firm appears to have been rising steadily, largely as a result of new DedroneTactical product.
“The primary half of 2023 has continued Dedrone’s unbelievable momentum from 2022, culminating within the new capabilities and tools of our DedroneTactical resolution, which had been impressed by the demand of our federal buyer base,” Dedrone CEO Devarakonda mentioned.
To take a look at the brand new DedroneTactical product your self, it’s really on show this week on the 2023 Airspace Consciousness & Safety Convention, which is being held this Wednesday and Thursday (June 7 and eight, 2023) in Leesburg, Virginia.
