South Korea: New Sound Waves Anti-UAV Weapon
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Many armies use UAVs during various operations as means to achieve a wide range of goals, from gathering intelligence through sensors or cameras to attacking enemy targets. Due to the fact that UAVs have become so frequently used, the need to develop defense methods against them has risen. The need to defend against them isn’t limited to technologically developed countries in an active war – several terror organizations are also boasting on achieving these advanced weapons.
Several states have established teams to come up with a defense strategy, each team arriving at a different conclusion as to what would be the best solution. Russia has announced a micro-wave based defense system, the United States has produced a conventional system which uses machine-guns to intercept UAVs, and now it is reported that South Korean scientists have invented an interception system based on sound waves. This new system, developed at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), works by focusing sound waves in certain frequencies and disrupts the horizontal balance system of the UAV and the ground operator’s loss of control over it.
Each time some technological advancement is speeding up, it also establishes a need for protection against that same technologies which, at a certain point, are starting to be used by the enemy. UAVs can be a platform for achieving a wide range of attacks, be it physical or cyber. The need to develop a defense method made up of, among other things, anti-aircraft means made especially to answer the specific threat that UAVs pose, can not be ignored.
Along with an aggressive defense, there’s also a need to establish a way for such weapons not to get to malicious bodies, such as terror organizations, so as to not become a threat in the first place.
