The Blighter AUDS system combines electronic scanning radar target detection, electro-optical tracking/classification and directional RF inhibition capability.
It uses a high powered ‘RF inhibitor’ to create radio waves to disable drones, effectively blocking their communication and switching them off in midair.
‘If I can see it, I can kill it,’ said Rick Sondag, executive vice-president of Liteye Systems, which sells the device, and who debuted it at the Commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Expo in Las Vegas this week, according to the Guardian.
Liteye, based in Colorado, was named distributor in the US and Canada for the device earlier this year by its three manufacturers: Enterprise, Chess Systems and Blighter.
Sondaq hopes to sell the system to airports and other places where national security is an issue.
‘The US government, like everyone else, has critical infrastructure and if they don’t feel like they can protect it, they’ll pass laws that will hamper progress and hamper current use,’ Sondag said.
‘The system may be used in remote or urban areas to prevent UAVs being used for terrorist attacks, espionage or other undesirable activities against sites with critical infrastructure,’ the firms say.
‘The Anti-UAV Defense System is likely to be an integral part of a wider networked surveillance and defense system.
‘Its soft kill capabilities make it a very attractive option for both military, internal and border security forces.
The Blighter AUDS system combines electronic scanning radar target detection, electro-optical tracking/classification and directional RF inhibition capability.
The system is portable and can be easily erected in minutes.
‘Where the situation demands restraint under provocation and where active, yet discrete, deterrence is required, AUDS delivers a very powerful message.’
Defences sources confirmed last month the British-designed system called AUDS – Anti Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Defense System – was trialed in Scotland earlier this year and proved effective against remote-controlled drones and autonomous drones which follow pre- programmed flight paths.The manufacturers of AUDS claim it takes between 10 and 15 seconds to target and disrupt multiple drones being flown in a ‘swarm attack’.
Source: The Verge
The exception is the technology has been designed to intercept civilian grade drones. It does not yet affect commercial or military aircraft, which use encrypted communications.
Give it a few weeks and it will be Death to All Drones!
