Rohde & Schwarz has announced the market launch of ARDRONIS Effect, which is designed to disrupt jam-resistant drones or armed drone swarms even in contested and congested operating environments.
Controlled by proprietary Rohde & Schwarz ARDRONIS Control Center software, ARDRONIS Effect can be operated in a standalone configuration or combined with any of the standard systems from the ARDRONIS family. These include the ARDRONIS Detect, ARDRONIS Locate Compact and ARDRONIS Locate Advanced systems, which when combined can detect, identify, track (both drone and pilot) and disrupt threats.
ARDRONIS Effect can be networked into any open counter-drone system of systems as a result of its open architecture. Rohde & Schwarz says it has achieved technology readiness level 9 with the flexible and modular system, which has already been proven in service with undisclosed customers in Europe.
The company’s product manager for C-UAS Solutions, Jan Link, says first person view (FPV) drone attacks across the modern battlespace have changed dramatically in recent years, specifically in terms of the type and number of radio frequencies used to control them. “C-UAS operators need to have the capability to jam every potential frequency, even during swarm attacks with multiple drones operating on different frequencies,” Mr. Link said. “The main challenge of ARDRONIS Effect is to jam a wide area but in a way that is effective enough to stop the operation of weaponised FPVs or intelligence-gathering drones. This requires ARDRONIS Effect to jam simultaneously on multiple bands at high output power across the entire spectrum without gaps in time and frequency.”
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