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What our systems see.

Spotting one drone in clear air is straightforward. Keeping track of twenty of them, small and faint and moving fast, without giving away where your sensors are, is the problem worth solving. This is what our systems do about it.

01

Small drones, not just large aircraft

A small drone shows up far more faintly than an aircraft does, and most counter-drone radar was specified against the easier case. Ours is specified against the harder one.

That means holding on to the faintest signals, at the point where conventional radar stops reporting anything rather than reporting something small.

02

Swarms, not one drone at a time

One drone is a spotting problem. Twenty are a counting problem: the system has to keep them apart and keep each one identified as it moves.

Every drone in the sky gets its own track, held through fast flying and through the moments when two of them cross paths. The count does not collapse the way it does on systems designed around one drone at a time.

03

Silent by default

A sensor that transmits can be found by anyone listening for it, and attacked by anything that follows a signal. In the silent setup our sensors transmit nothing at all.

That matters at defense sites, where a radar mast becomes a target the moment it switches on, and at airports, where nothing new can be added to already crowded airwaves.

04

Hard to jam, hard to take out

Coverage comes from several small sensors spread around a site rather than one large radar on one mast. There is no single thing to jam and no single thing to destroy.

Lose one sensor and the network gets weaker. It does not go dark.

Fig. 01 / Site coverage
SENSOR NETWORKRANGEBEARINGN1N2N3TARGET

Sensor nodes are spread across the site rather than concentrated on one mast. Each target is reported in range and bearing from the network.

Fig. 02 / Tracking error, simulated
CONVENTIONAL RADARRIRALABSOBSERVATION TIME →TRACKING ERROR →

Indicative shape of simulated results: our tracking error stays below a conventional radar across the operating range. Axes are unlabelled by value. Exact figures are shared under demo.

05

What comes out

  • How far away, which direction and how fast, for every drone
  • Live positions, updated continuously
  • Many drones held at the same time
  • Feeds your control room and the systems you already use

07 / EVALUATION

The detail comes in the demo.

Measured performance, test conditions and how the system compares against what you run today are covered directly, with your engineers, under a demo. They are not published here.

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