AI-Based Counter-Drone System
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The Pentagon has spent years searching for reliable ways to combat consumer drones that have been repurposed as reconnaissance craft or bombers. The fear was underscored this year when military-grade drones were implicated in attacks in Saudi Arabia and the Strait of Hormuz, and last year during an assassination attempt in Venezuela using hobbyist drones.
The Interceptor drone by Anduril Industries has been launched recently as part of the Lattice AI cUAS (counter Unmanned Aerial System) solution to detect and interdict unmanned aircraft or autonomous drone systems.
Lattice is a software and hardware system that uses cutting-edge AI, computer vision and mesh networking to solve critical problems and save lives.
Lattice integrates all Anduril hardware and third party sensors into a single, autonomous operational platform. From single Sentry Towers to hundreds of drones, all devices work together as one large, seamless networked system to allow human operators to act quickly with the best information available.
The Interceptor brings proven technology to the increasingly critical counter-drone mission, providing an additional dimension of force protection for military personnel and installations or critical infrastructure, according to uasvision.com.
Anduril Industries, a 2-year-old startup in Irvine, Calif., began shipping Interceptors to military clients in the U.S. and the U.K. earlier this year; it’s sent dozens so far and has hundreds more in production.
The company says its most recent contract is to deploy Interceptors overseas to conflict zones, though it declines to provide details.
Anduril already had contracts to build surveillance systems on military bases and along the Mexican border, using towers and drones packed with cameras and other sensors. But the company wants to move beyond simply identifying threats using computers. The Interceptor, which Anduril hasn’t previously discussed publicly, is its first computer-operated weapon, according to bloomberg.com.
