The drone that brings down the drones: here is Anduril Counter Drone
Designed for use for military purposes, Conter Drone can intervene to break down drones that are flying without authorization in reserved spaces. Such as on an airport runway.
A drone used to knock down other drones, whose presence in a certain place is not authorized. This is the proposal of Anduril Industries, an American company that sees at the head that Palmer Luckey who co-founded Oculus in recent years and who after leaving that company dedicated himself to the world of drones. From the first experiments with virtual reality, we can say, Palmer switched to a sort of little virtual war with drone shots.
Anduril Counter Drone, this is the name of the product, operates by intercepting and attacking drones present in an unauthorized airspace. The drone is part of the Lattice AI cUAS (counter Unmanned Aerial System) system developed by Anduril, which through an artificial intelligence logic allows you to preside over an area and make sure that the interception drone can knock down an unauthorized drone.
Once an Anduril Counter Drone objective is identified, it intervenes quickly accelerating and colliding with the unauthorized drone: the impact is so strong that it breaks some component of the drone, which in this way can no longer fly falling to the ground.
The intervention can take place both during the day and at night, thanks to the logic of artificial intelligence and the sensors integrated in the product. Anduril Counter Drone is obviously built with a very sturdy structure, in order to withstand the impact with the drone to be knocked down and to be able to continue to operate regularly.
A product of this type is part of the use of technology more oriented towards the military industry, in which the possibility of monitoring and preventing the monitoring of territories is particularly important. But a more civil use of a product of this type can be presented, for example: as a solution to cases in which an airport’s air traffic must be blocked because a drone is flying on the runway without authorization.
This is what happened last year in the English airport of Gatwick, with a drone that in several days has risen in flight forcing the closure of the airport for several hours with obvious repercussions on air traffic.
