Vancouver, Canada-based military industrial company AerialX, which specializes in the manufacture of unmanned aerial vehicles, has developed the AerialX kamikaze drone, which will help in the prevention of terrorist attacks using drones.
AerialX CEO Noam Kenig describes the new product as "a hybrid of a rocket and a quadcopter." In fact, this is a kamikaze drone that looks like a miniature rocket, but has the maneuverability of a quadcopter. With a take-off weight of 910 grams, this pocket missile with a range of 4 km is capable of reaching speeds of up to 350 km/h in a dive attack. The kamikaze drone is designed to intercept enemy unmanned aerial vehicles and pursue them in order to further destroy them.
Koenig said that the company started with the development of conventional drones, but at some point it became clear that the market for such drones was oversaturated. After that, AerialX turned its attention to creating other technologies for the drone market.
In particular, a set of tools was developed for conducting an examination of incidents involving drones, which allows you to recover drones that have been in an accident and analyze information about the flight progress and the causes of the crash. The company is also developing drone detection systems.
The DroneBullet is started manually. All the operator needs to do to deploy it is to identify a target in the sky.
The relatively small body of the DroneBullet incorporates a camera and various neural network-based components that allow it to independently perform the necessary calculations to determine the optimal flight path needed to hit the target.
According to Koenig, the kamikaze drone itself determines the moment and point of attack. If the target is a small drone, then the strike will be from below. If the target is a large drone, then DroneBullet will attack from above, at the most sensitive place on the drone, where the GPS module and unprotected propellers are usually located.
Source: 3dnews.ru