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AUSA 2015: More C-UAS tech emerges

12th October 2015 - 21:28 GMT | by Grant Turnbull in Washington DC

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Lockheed Martin has joined a growing list of companies that are offering a product to counter the threat from UAS.

Unveiled at AUSA 2015, the Icarus system is a ‘multi-spectral sensor solution’ designed to address the potential for UAS, generally quadcopters, to be used as airborne improvised explosive devices (IED).

Michael Panczenko, the company’s director of cyber engineering and technology, highlighted recent security alerts that involved a quadcopter including the 2013 incident that saw a drone crash in front of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

‘That is a scary situation,’ Panczenko said. ‘It those types of events that provides the motivation to

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Grant Turnbull was the editor of Land Warfare International and Digital Battlespace magazines with Shephard …

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