MBDA is exhibiting a new effector concept for its modular and scalable Sky Warden counter-uncrewed aerial systems (C-UAS) technology at the Farnborough International Airshow this week.
The ground launched anti-air munition is designed to target threats that include Class 1 and smaller Class 2 small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS) and loitering munitions. Using Fortem Technologies’ DroneHunter® technology, the concept enables the rapid incorporation of a warhead on a drone.
MBDA says tests and demonstrations of the munition have been successful. Recent customer demonstrations saw Sky Warden neutralise a wide range of offensive drone threats with varying kinetic characteristics and in realistic operational scenarios. Using artificial intelligence (AI) to assist its human operators to identify and classify the different threats from its full set of sensors (radar, passive RF, electro-optical cameras, etc.), Sky Warden automatically assigned to the most appropriate and available effector. In the threat scenarios Sky Warden faced, MBDA said it “blocked attacking drones with jammers, captured them with hunter drones, neutralised them in rapid sequence by laser, and destroyed a ‘shahed-like’ drone with a Mistral 3 missile at very long distance”.
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