The British Army has tested a revolutionary drone-to-drone anti-drone system. The new system, called Sentinel, is a veritable swarm of networked interceptor drones and reconnaissance sensors capable of independently locating, tracking and destroying enemy drones.
These tests were conducted as part of the secret Vanaheim project, which aims to find and implement advanced technologies to counter drones, the number one threat on the modern battlefield, as quickly as possible. The idea is simple, but ingenious: instead of relying solely on ground-based radars and radio interference, which often "go blind" behind hills, buildings or trees, Sentinel uses a network of flying sensors that take to the air themselves and see the situation from above.
The system was developed by the German startup Alpine Eagle. According to them, Sentinel solves the main problem of ground—based air defense systems - the inability to detect a target that flies out of line of sight. The "flying swarm" easily bypasses these obstacles. Moreover, the system itself is much less vulnerable to counterattacks: if a ground station can be easily disabled, then attacking an entire distributed network of drones is much more difficult.
Sentinel is suitable both for protecting stationary objects (for example, bases or camps) and for escorting military columns on the move, creating a "cloud shield" of small hunting drones over them. If the tests are successful, it could become the new standard in the war on drones.
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