USSOCOM tests the use of passive radar in C-UAS missions
MAVERICK M8 is a soldier-portable passive radar. (Photo: Silentium Defence)
Trials with the Silentium Defence Maverick M8 passive radar system were conducted in Exercise Trident Spectre 2024.
Aiming at improving the protection for special operators against UAS, the US Special Operations Command (US SOCOM) tested a soldier-portable passive radar during Exercise Trident Spectre 2024 in April in Fort Story, Virginia.
Supplied by the Australian company Silentium Defence, the Maverick M8 system is a low-size, weight and power solution for land tactical surveillance. It can support C-UAS missions by detecting and tracking drones without exposing operators or allowing enemies to geolocate them.
The Silentium’s co-founder and Chief Experience Officer, Simon Palumbo, explained that although ‘it does not transmit anything’, MaverickM8 can ‘see everything in the airspace’, even
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