Electronic Attack to Counter Drones
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A new scalable counter-unmanned air vehicle (C-UAV) system has been unveiled by Finmeccanica’s systems and sensors house Selex ES at DSEI 2015.
Known as Falcon Shield, the system marries a multi-spectral threat sensing capability with a radio frequency (RF) electronic attack (EA) capability that provides a command link control intervention capability.
According to Selex ES, the rapid proliferation of micro/ mini UAVs represents a growing potential threat to both national and commercial security.
To address this challenge, the company has developed Falcon Shield as a non-kinetic, low collateral C-UAV solution that provides users with a rapidly deployable, scalable and modular system to find, fix, track, identify and defeat potential threats.
Falcon Shield uses high-performance electro-optical and electronic surveillance sensors, combined with a scenario-specific radar, to provide fully integrated threat detection, identification and tracking capability, and enable effective operation in all environments ? including high-clutter ‘urban canyons’.
Also incorporated within the Falcon Shield system is an EA capability that provides users with the ability to disrupt or take control of the threat. Selex ES claims that Falcon Eye ‘‘is the first of its type to offer an ‘RF management’ EA option for operators’’. Furthermore, because Falcon Shield is inherently flexible, this EA capability can be complemented by the integration of optional kinetic effectors.
The operator interface is based on the company’s Vantage control and situation awareness framework, which provides an intuitive user interface and automated threat detection tracking functions, including automated handover between detection and identification sensors. The flexibility of the Vantage C2SA framework also enables the Falcon Shield system to be readily tailored and interfaced with existing customer-specific security solutions as well as the customer’s security infrastructure.
The sensing element of Falcon Shield has already been tested in recent ‘Trial Bristow’ evaluations, with the defeat mechanism tested separately. Selex ES says it is talking to a number of potential users across government and industry, and is currently “responding to an RFI for a prospective customer”.
