The Australian Anti-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System (C-UAS) expert DroneShield has been awarded a contract to provide the Australian Army with its RfOne MKII high-frequency (HF) direction finder to enhance the service’s capabilities against unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Announced on July 19.
The company did not disclose the size of the order, but noted that the system is being delivered immediately to enable the military to evaluate its future C-UAS requirements and options.
“The deployment of these remote sensors will highlight the flexibility, resilience and capabilities of the DroneShield device in a dynamic field environment,” DroneShield said.
Multiple RfOne MKII direction finders can be set up to accurately triangulate and locate small UAVs and their ground stations or controllers operating on the ISM frequency band. According to the company, the maximum range of each system is 8 kilometers.
RFOne MKII is one of the components of the DroneSentry system at a fixed site. The system uses a direction finder as a sensor, and is equipped with a radar and a photoelectric camera. It can also expand the radio frequency interference capability and play a role in the frustration of drones.
In recent months, DroneShield has gained attention with its C-UAS product. It announced in June that it had reached a two-year A$3.8 million agreement with an undisclosed Five Eyes intelligence community, and signed a worthy electronic warfare/signal intelligence equipment contract with the Australian Department of Defense (DoD).
The company subsequently revealed that it had received an initial order from a high-profile US federal agency for critical infrastructure for a portable C-UAS frustration system.
In June, DroneShield’s mobile DroneSentry-X C-UAS detection and defeat system successfully completed a six-week demonstration in an exercise with the U.S. Navy’s M80 Stiletto maritime demonstration ship.
The demonstration verified a wide range of performance and evaluation indicators, proving the overall detection capabilities, detection and defeat ranges of DroneSentry-X, mobile operations in various sea conditions, and its effectiveness and unmanned threats against drone swarms involving various robots. Although the company and the Navy did not disclose more details.
“DroneSentry-X provides mobile and fixed-site platforms with unparalleled capabilities and spectrum sensing capabilities to deal with various threats. We are pleased to complete this demonstration and support an important part of the US Navy mission,” said DroneShield CEO Oleg Vornik , And pointed out that this opportunity also allows the company to demonstrate that the system can withstand corrosive marine environments without compromising physics and performance.
Xiao Wu
