DroneShield Ltd
(ASX:DRO) has introduced that their DroneGun Tactical™ was used to neutralize 4 drones at Brazil’s presidential inauguration ceremony – earlier than the suspicious plane bought near President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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Lula da Silva, a 77 year-old who already served as Brazil’s president from 2003 to 2010, is taking the presidential workplace for the third time. The ceremony, held on the Cathedral Brasilia, was closely guarded in response to threats of violence from supporters of da Silva’s predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. Regardless of the danger, the newly elected President and First Woman traveled in an open automotive parade.
Presidential safety utilised DroneGun Tactical™, as pictured within the Brazilian media picture beneath, to neutralize 4 suspicious drones that had been heading in direction of the President on the inauguration occasion.
Picture: A safety agent walks with DroneShield’s DroneGun Tactical™ subsequent to the presidential Rolls-Royce that was utilized by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at his inauguration ceremony in Brasilia, on January 1, 2023 (Photograph by CARL DE SOUZA / AFP)
Commercially bought drones have been utilized in terrorist assaults. The United Nations Workplace of Counter Terrorism says:
UAS provide terrorist teams a set of distinct benefits as a part of their assault methods, most crucially a larger potential to bypass conventional bodily safety measures based mostly on a number of ranges of safety (e.g., within the type of hardened venue perimeters designed to stem vehicle-borne assaults, armed guards or visitor-screening limitations).
DroneShield’s DroneGun Tactical™makes use of excessive efficiency directional antennas “to pick and have interaction the vary of jamming frequencies for goal defeat,” says the corporate. “…When disruption is triggered, UAS targets (e.g. drone) will reply through vertical on the spot touchdown or return to its distant controller or start line.” The DroneGun neutralizes suspicious drones with non-kinetic jamming expertise.
DroneShield has expanded into the Brazil market in mid 2021, when it has obtained a proper approval from Anatel, the Brazilian Nationwide Telecommunications Company liable for issuing the concession of latest radio frequencies, for deployment of its units. Following the approval, the Firm has now bought a amount of its DroneGun Tactical™ models to Brazilian Authorities.
DroneShield CEO, Oleg Vornik, commented: “Brazil is a key South American marketplace for DroneShield, and we’re happy to see deployment of our methods within the nation on the highest stage, which is predicted to stream all the way down to additional methods being utilised in Brazil, as counter-UAS necessities proceed to quickly develop.”
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