The DND challenge is, to a rounding error, only for group 1 and group 2 drones.
Northrop Grumman
Sensors and radars
Many, HAMMR looks like fun
Medium Calibre
M-ACE “Mobile - Acquisition, Cueing, and Effector” system
can “cue” a nearby 25mm (or maybe 30mm?) autocannon (contrast with CIWS 20x102mm, this is a spicy enchilada)
HATCHET mini precision strike munition
30x173mm proximity warheads splashing a consumer drone from a bushmaster
Directed Energy
warships and vehicle-mounted lasers. Big vaporware vibes.
Electronic Warfare
DRAKE, JCREW
DRAKE, drone specific, RF jamming group 1
JCREW is a backpack-mounted thing for misc RF uses
Anduril
footage of a pretty spectacular splash on a fixed wing
milspec aesthetic
they also make drones (monocopter, tube launched fixed wing, shown fired from truck and helicopter)
counter-uas ramming quad “Anvil”
RF effects, EW, and kinetic defeat.
Sentry towers
33ft tall, 25ft circle footprint
1500lbs
at least 4 radars, they claim “360 degree”
track 1-3 drones
also at least 2 different mechanically steered electrooptics
other maybe GSM or 2.4 antenna? Some spin with optics
maritime variant has a rotating antenna as well
trailer hauled variant
Lattice
software to fly fleet of drones
open architecture
ApolloShield
focus on quadcopters
extensive drone threat library
jamming/takeover in beta
one-stop-shop
They’ve got
Omni RF Sensor
Directional RF Sensor, saying multiple can triangulate
“sense&block” suitcase-looking pelican case with “protection bubble” against commercial drones
RF Gun
RF Jammer, they claim ‘including autonomous drones’
Vehicle-mounted RF Locator
Command Center, claims integration with other systems
Targeting the ‘dumb kid with a DJI’ use case. Sending out a minivan to track down kids flying a DJI too close to an airport or in a national park. No obvious countermeasures beyond really low power RF looking jamming.
2022 IDEAS Participants
I’m only including Detect and Defeat
AerialX
Drone Shield - 2
EOS Defence Systems PTY Limited
Hensoldt Sensors GmbH Germany
LiveLink Aerospace Ltd
SkySafe
Teledyne FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems ULC - 2
AerialX
founded 2013, vancouver
dronebullet, rammer quad
SUAG, unclear what this is. Looks like a folding rammer drone? Rounded nose.
Spotter, binocular vision racing quad
Drone Shield
Public on ASX, raised 9.9m 2023-07-04, they’ve got NSNs
landing page is a giant hero banner with a video of the dorkiest HERF shotgun I’ve seen so far
lot of vaporware energy stock photography
multiple HERF shotgun-looking toys
some century towers
some software
no obvious hard kill effect
EOS Defence Systems PTY Limited
also public on ASX
high energy laser?
video is just a bunch of vehicles with autocannons, rockets
they do have footage of the most exploded drone I’ve seen so far
this is the most mature looking system I’ve seen so far
Hensoldt Sensors GmbH Germany
public on FSE
Partnered with ‘MyDefence’, shipping counter-UAS
Spexer 360 radars
MyDefence from Denmark adds networked Watchdog direction finding RF drone detector
Panoptes, a mobile app to send photos of drones to C2
Apollo, acoustic detection
Hera, electro-optic detection
P.D.A.R, Passive RF Detection & Ranging
Orion, net-on-a-quadcopter, initially guided by C2, onboard detect, classify and close without uplink, apparently flies underneath target for soft-kill intercept