DroneShield C2 technology joins tethered UAVs
Quadro tethered UAV. (Photo: Zenith AeroTech)
Heavy-lift tethered UAVs could enable more efficient C-UAS detection.
Hexa, Quad 8, and Quadro tethered UAVs from Zenith AeroTech will incorporate the DroneSentry-C2TM C2 system from DroneShield, the two companies announced on 19 May.
This will ‘provide enhanced drone detection capabilities, along with a range of countermeasures’, they added.
An Echodyne EchoFlight radar is also being added to the heavy-lift tethered UAVs to simplify mission planning.
‘By putting a detection capability on a TAV, which typically flies at 400 feet, you get better range than if you were to have these systems on a pole or ground vehicle,’ said Zenith Aerotech CEO Kutlay Kaya.
He added: ‘Also, your alerts will be more accurate because, at elevation, you’ve eliminated clutter.’
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