By: Kyle Rempfer
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Ground pounders may shortly endure swatting those pesky drones from the battlefield’s airspace amongst the aid of a novel hand-held device. The IXI Dronekiller is the kickoff in addition to solely hand-held counter-drone technology employing the role of software defined radio, according to IXI Technology representatives at the Sea-Air-Space Exposition inwards Washington, D.C., this week. “This is non a broadband jammer, similar what y'all tin purchase online,” a society official told Defense News. “This is software defined radio, in addition to then we’re targeting whatever specific frequency drones are operating on.” Each drone has a unlike type of frequency, for illustration the DJI Phantom — a mutual commercial-use drone — operates on the 2400 to 2483 MHZ frequency, or 2.4 GHZ band. Within that 2.4 band, an operator selects unlike channels to link betwixt them in addition to the drone itself.
The IXI Dronekiller on display at the Sea Air Space Exposition inwards Washington, D.C., Tuesday. (Kyle Rempfer/Staff) "And the latest DJI Phantom drone has a channel hopping capability," the society official said. "And our device tin besides counter that."
"So what we're doing is non blocking a whole channel. We're inserting a flake of dissonance or additional information to pause the link betwixt the drone in addition to operator,” he added.
The IXI Dronekiller volition endure able to target all Type I in addition to Type II commercial drones, which are precisely the type you'd meet non-state, in addition to fifty-fifty only about state, actors employ on battlefields similar Syria, Republic of Iraq in addition to Afghanistan.
The Navy may non convey total orbits of the MQ-4C Triton ISR platform until 2021.
“Many terror groups are trying to role smaller drones for surveillance, or perhaps adding a payload to it similar a bomb in addition to drib it,” the society official said.
In battlespaces similar Syria, drone role has teach increasingly common. Fighters from the Syriac Military Council — a Christian militia closely allied amongst Syrian Kurd fighters — fifty-fifty uncovered what they claimed was an Islamic State drone mill inwards July 2017.
But whatever an ISIS fighter is trying to gin upward from spare parts isn’t going to endure able to halt the IXI Dronkiller from knocking it down, according to IXI Technology.
"As long equally nosotros tin set the frequency a targeted drone is using, nosotros tin hitting it," he said.
Thanks to a radio frequency sensor, the IXI Dronekiller tin teach “all drone signals” inwards roughly three seconds.
Even amend for the warfighter, the gun is equally unproblematic equally point-and-shoot, amongst a thirty score cone of lawsuit on whatever target is existence aimed at. And a newer version of the device is fifty-fifty attachable to an assail rifle, similar to how i would attach an M203 grenade launcher.
"You signal inwards that direction, in addition to when the drone flies into the cone ... the cheaper drones would only crash. But the amend ones volition wing dorsum to base,” he added. "It tin besides rail the drone in addition to follow it dorsum to domicile in addition to meet who was truly flight it."
IXI Technology's dronekilling attachment for a criterion assail rifle. (Kyle Rempfer/Staff) Oceanside Police Department inwards San Diego, California, equally good equally the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, already role a version of the device to knock commercial drones violating airspace regulations during events similar the Golden Globes in addition to Rose Bowl.
"Two weeks ago, nosotros sent them to Camp Pendleton, [California], where the Marines were testing it,” the official said. “And this calendar week at Ft. Bragg, [North Carolina], the Army is testing it."
The IXI Dronekiller’s specifications dry reason that it has battery life allowing 4 hours of active agency use, a rechargeable Lithium-ion battery, correct or left paw operation, an environment-resistant frame, a weight of 7.5 pounds in addition to a attain of 1 kilometer.
Even amend for the ground-pounder, the gun is tardily to use, amongst user grooming topping out at less than a minute.
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