Ukraine’s Acoustic Drone Detection Network Eyed By U.S. As Low-Cost Air Defense Option. Ukraine’s network of nearly 10,000 acoustic sensors has been highly effective and the U.S. Army is interested in copying it.
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Ukraine’s Acoustic Drone Detection Network Eyed By U.S. As Low-Cost Air Defense Option. Ukraine’s network of nearly 10,000 acoustic sensors has been highly effective and the U.S. Army is interested in copying it.
by RoninSolutions
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Highlyly attuned Acoustic radar, high energy lasers with AI.
Medium to small piloted drone defense.
RIP birds in the area
What the Ukrainians have managed to do with drones is nothing short of miraculous every military in the world is no doubt taking notes.
The article soft-pedals the drawback of the acoustic system’s relatively short range. “Larger drones, like the DJI Air 2S, may be heard from around 400 feet,” at least by humans, according to one source. Unless the microphones are a lot more sensitive than our ears, they will miss most quadcopters flying at modest altitudes. Gas fueled drones like the Shahid, fortunately, make a lot more noise.
Well… Damn.
Full circle.
The original Aerial sensor detection system was large Acoustic Listening Devices. They were still in service as late as 1940/1941. I know Japan had them, but I’m not sure when they stopped using them.
Interesting story, too, about one such system used for Artillery Tracking and Counter Battery Fire.
A US Army Officer, working his station and with two others around Anzio, so accurately tracked and located a German Railroad Gun, he was literally only off by a mile, but the Tactical Fighters spotted its Railroad Track and found its tunnel where US Infantry found it after they took the area a few weeks later.