Systems capable of detecting micro- and minidrons already 3000 m from the secured object, disrupting their operation and destroying – specified equipment is being sought by the Armed Forces Agency, which announced a preliminary marketplace consultation with companies that can supply the military with specified technologies. They are to defend military air bases and material storage.
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Talks about which Armed Forces Agency informed at the end of March, they are preliminary and not binding. At the moment, nearly 40 entities have come to the meeting. For now, AU wants to know marketplace offer, parameters and prices of drone control systems offered by curious companies. On this basis, a public procurement procedure will be carried out. – first marketplace consultations are conducted to inform possible contractors of the contracting plans. At the same time, they should let to get basic information on the military equipment planned to be purchased, including its availability, the data essential to estimation the acquisition and operation costs, etc.," noted the spokesperson for AU Colonel Grzegorz Polak.
Security up to 3 km from the base
What precisely is the Armed Forces looking for? – This is about non-kinetic detection systems Unmanned aircraft and countering them, consisting of detection, interference and fire management subsystems, explains Colonel Pole.
As set out in the Annex to the Consultation Notice, The AU wants systems capable of detecting enemy drones and disrupting their operation. The equipment is intended to safe the full facility. The Agency indicated that it was about air military bases and material storage. For class I micro category drones (up to 2 kg; e.g. DJI Phantom), the scope of radiolocation detection and classification is to cover the full facility and not little than 1000 m from its border. In the case of mini drones (up to 20 kg), the strategy is to detect them on the base and up to 3000 m in front of it.
In addition, systems are to be able to carry out directional and round-the-clock reconnaissance; to let optical recognition up to half a kilometer from the protected facility, and to be equipped with thermal imaging in addition to the daytime camera. In addition, they are intended to let interference of drones throughout the covered area and not little than 500 m from its border – in the case of a directional solution. On the another hand, it is expected to be effective in not little than 300 m from the designated facilities.
In its description of the requirements for the equipment being searched, the Agency besides stressed that it should be equipped with a fire management subsystem, which, as noted, is ‘to be able to manage and manage all elements of the strategy for the detection, classification, recognition and neutralisation of Class I BSP hazards’. “It’s about non-kinetic firing of these targets, that is, situations erstwhile a drone affected by a targeted electromagnetic radiation beam (WRE) stops working and, for example, falls,” he says. Colonel Marcin Szymanski, retired peculiar Forces officer and expert FORT Kraków – a facility that as 1 of 16 facilities in the planet cooperates with start-ups developing drone and anti-drone technologies for NATO under the DIANA programme.
Protection not only during conflict
“The Polish marketplace surely enables the acquisition of systems that the Agency of Armed Forces is looking for,” said Colonel Szymanski. As he adds, the methods of radio-electronic combat and solutions that can be equipped with the right technologies are very many. They can, for example, capture an image that “sees” an unmanned drone without the cognition of the operator, so that the operator learns what the enemy is curious in. "These safeguards are needed not only during the regular conflict, but besides in the context of a number of irregular actions which we are increasingly dealing with. This includes sabotage. delight remember that a man with a inexpensive drone from the store, who can effectively destabilize it, even without the desire to drop an explosive charge, notes Colonel Szymanski.
The Armed Forces Agency does not uncover how many anti-drone systems the military intends to purchase. first marketplace consultations with companies that can propose specified solutions will last until 30 June.
