A little-known Australian-listed company is cashing in on America’s burgeoning fight against the crime and spying of flying robots.
Australian company DroneShield supplies technology to multiple US government agencies and defence forces including those in the US and Australia. It expects to double its revenue this calendar year due to the demand for its counter-drone technology.
Mr Vornik said the US bureaucratic agency the Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Systems Office was expected to issue contracts on drone-fighting technology worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the next several years, and the Air Force and Navy would follow suit. If you can take a $2000 drone and you take down a $5 million tank with it, well that’s a very good use of money, right?The equipment is unique, has no Chinese inputs, and an entire inhouse manufacturing unit in Australia and a back office that constantly upgrades the technology.
Mr McCrann talked about multiple prison incidents where drones had delivered contraband to prisoners, from escape kits to mobile phones. In that instance, there was a greater desire for tracking as opposed to jamming. Better to let them deliver the goods and trace where the drone ends up, so as to apprehend the offenders.DroneShield has provided counter-drone technology to the Ukrainian armed forces against Russian surveillance drones such as Orlan-10.
US Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall and chief of Naval Operations Michael Gilday have raised the need for more spending on drones and counter-drone technology.
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