DroneShield Incorporates its DroneSentry with Epirus’ Leonidas C-UAS System
by DRONELIFE Personnel Author Ian M. Crosby
DroneShield Ltd and Epirus, Inc have actually effectively incorporated DroneShield’s multi-sensor DroneSentry system with Epirus’ Leonidas high-power microwave (HPM) counter-electronics/counter-UAS effector. Together, these 2 systems make it possible for a completely incorporated C-UAS system efficient in tracking several dangers and engaging with high-powered microwave countermeasures, approving important protective abilities to military, federal government and other clients.
DroneSentry leverages radio frequency, radar and electro-optic detection and tracking systems in addition to a wise jamming UAS defeat module, using its ingenious DroneSentry-C2 command-and-control system.
Epirus’ Leonidas counter-electronics system can reducing the effects of a single risk in compact and busy locations, along with disabling several dangers simultaneously throughout a broad location. The business’s groundbreaking method to directed energy allows unequaled counter-electronics impacts, considerably lowers the system’s weight and size, and enables increased operator control and security. The system is installed on a gimbal for higher maneuverability, and can be released as a repaired or mobile ability for wide-area quick reaction.
Previously this year, Epirus was granted a $ 66 million United States Federal government agreement for the stand-alone Leonidas systems. Last November, it made a financial investment of A$ 3.7 million (approximately US$ 2.5 million) into DroneShield as it seeks to broaden its worldwide partner environment.
” The combined system supplies considerably broadened choices for our United States DoD, and in time, worldwide client base,” stated DroneShield CEO Oleg Vornik. “In addition, there are synergies on business advancement front, which DroneShield and Epirus are currently dealing with.”
” Epirus and DroneShield share a typical principles of quick speed, high tech development, to offer the warfighter with sophisticated innovations to secure versus the quickly increasing risk of drones and other electronic dangers,” stated Epirus CEO Ken Bedingfield. “We are delighted to continue deepening the engagement with time.”
This news follows a variety of current achievements by DroneShield, consisting of 2 A$ 11 million orders from Federal government firms of 2 different nations in December and January, a preliminary UTM order in March, along with a $2.2 million order and the release of the DroneGun Mk4 this previous April.
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Ian participated in Dominican University of California, where he got a bachelor’s degree in English in 2019. With a long-lasting enthusiasm for composing and storytelling and an eager interest in innovation, he is now adding to DroneLife as a personnel author
Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, an expert drone services market, and an interested observer of the emerging drone market and the regulative environment for drones. Miriam has actually penned over 3,000 short articles concentrated on the business drone area and is a global speaker and acknowledged figure in the market. Miriam has a degree from the University of Chicago and over twenty years of experience in high tech sales and marketing for brand-new innovations.
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