Hunting Drones With Drones
10/26/2023
By Laura Heckmann
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — The proliferation of drones, both foreign and domestic, has triggered a necessity for creative means to counter unmanned aerial systems, and one tech company is bringing a drone to the drone fight.
Fortem Technologies, a Utah-based airspace security and defense company, has developed a net-slinging drone interceptor called the DroneHunter F700, a fully autonomous, radar-guided counter-UAS weapon built to stop Group 1 and large Group 2 drones.
The drones literally net their targets using NetGuns — modular attachments that fire rapidly expanding nets to ensnare targets. The drones can carry three types of nets aimed at different target sizes, Adam Robertson, chief technology officer and co-founder of Fortem Technologies, said at the National Defense Industrial Association’s FUZE/FFC/DEMIL conference in September.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2023/10/26/hunting-drones-with-drones
