American startup Sentradel showed autonomous turrets for destroying FPV drones
The startup team at Sentradel is creating autonomous turrets with machine vision that can cheaply and massively destroy conventional and fiber-optic FPV drones.
The startup team at Sentradel is creating autonomous turrets with machine vision that can cheaply and massively destroy conventional and fiber-optic FPV drones.
«In today’s threat landscape, a $500 FPV drone can easily destroy a $10 million tank. We are losing this asymmetric cost war. The solution is NOT $100,000 missiles, but affordable systems like Sentradel», — the developers note.
According to them, it is important that Western militaries adopt more affordable ways to destroy these drones and change the imbalance.
Sentradel was founded this year by Cameron Rowe and robotics engineer Stefan. Rowe’s previous startup, Hover, provided drones to energy companies in North America and has made over 12,000 drone deliveries. Stefan developed automated turrets at STS Innovations.
«We should be able to destroy small drones at a fraction of the cost of an attacker», — believe the founders of Sentradel.
Sentradel builds autonomous turrets to detect, track, and destroy small drones that attempt to harm people. The product is equipped with machine vision and passive acoustic drone detection. Sentradel turrets are fully autonomous and can be easily customized to the user’s needs.
«Small drones weighing up to 9 kg (so-called Group 1 UAVs) pose problems for traditional air defense because they fly low, sometimes without radio frequencies or use fiber optic cable, which makes them difficult to detect even for the best detection systems», — the developers point out.
Earlier, Ukrainian activist and volunteer Serhiy Sternenko said that in the future, drones with fiber optics could be countered by turrets with machine vision.
Military expert Serhiy «Flash» Bezkrestnov noted that Ukrainian developers are working on a new technology — rotating turrets, which could be effective in destroying Russian jet drones.
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Ukrainian Frontline and Estonian Milrem Robotics combined the Burya robotic turret with the THeMIS ground platform
Ukrainian Frontline and Estonian Milrem Robotics combined the Burya robotic turret with the THeMIS ground platform
Ukrainians are developing rotating turrets against Russian jet drones
Ukrainians are developing rotating turrets against Russian jet drones
«Miniturrets with machine vision will be used.» Sternenko explained what means will counter fiber-optic drones in the future
«Miniturrets with machine vision will be used.» Sternenko explained what means will counter fiber-optic drones in the future
