Dominating the New High Ground
By Tamir Eshel -
Mar 6, 2017
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The Australian company DroneShield announced the first sale of its DroneGun tactical drone jammer to a government in the Middle East. Photo: Droneshield
The growing use of improvised, weaponized drones triggered a new interest in counter-UAV capabilities. Such countermeasures are required to warn the unit on the presence of drones in their area and have the ability to disrupt and defeat those drones when required. Until now, such unavailable were not available in the region. Although US forces have deployed some off-the-shelf C-UAV capabilities in the Middle-East since 2016, most of these technologies were not exportable to allied nations.
The US Army has already fielded various vehicle-borne UAV countermeasures. One such solution is the C-UAS Mobile Integrated Capability (CMIC) mounted on a reconnaissance Stryker vehicle. The system can identify, track and jam UAVs using the additional equipment added for the CMIC mission. Two CMIC vehicles deployed to Eastern Europe for operational evaluation in March 2017. More vehicles could also support US forces that have entered Syria recently.
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