Technology developed by three British firms to combat rising drone threat
Now being sold in the US and targeted at airports and homeland security
Boeing and others developing laser weapons to knock out drones
System also being tested by security forces in the UK
It could be the answer to the rising threat of drones - a 'death ray' that uses radio waves to disable them from up to a mile away.
The system is being shown off in Las Vegas amid growing concern over the threat from unmanned vehicles.
It uses high powered radio waves to disable drones, effectively blocking their communication and switching them off in midair.
'If I can see it, I can kill it,' said Rick Sondag, executive vice-president of Liteye Systems, which sells the device, and who debuted it at the Commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Expo in Las Vegas this week, according to the Guardian. Liteye, based in Colorado, was named distributor in the US and Canada for the device earlier this year by its three manufacturers: Enterprise, Chess Systems and Blighter. Sondaq hopes to sell the system to airports and other places where national security is an issue. 'The US government, like everyone else, has critical infrastructure and if they don't feel like they can protect it, they'll pass laws that will hamper progress and hamper current use,' Sondag said. How It Works The Blighter AUDS system combines electronic scanning radar target detection, electro-optical tracking/classification and directional RF inhibition capability. It uses a high powered 'RF inhibitor' to create radio waves to disable drones, effectively blocking their communication and switching them off in midair.
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