AerialX, a military-industrial company from Vancouver (Canada) that specializes in the production of unmanned aerial vehicles, has developed the AerialX kamikaze drone to help prevent terrorist acts involving drones.
AerialX's CEO Noam Kenig describes the innovation as a "hybrid of a missile and a quadcopter." Essentially, it is a kamikaze drone that looks like a miniature missile but has the maneuverability of a quadcopter. With a takeoff weight of 910 grams, this pocket missile has a range of 4 km and can reach 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 for destruction.
Kenig stated that the company started with the development of conventional drones, but at some point, it became clear that the market for such unmanned aerial vehicles was saturated. After this, AerialX began creating other technologies for the drone market.
In particular, a toolkit was developed for incident investigation involving drones, which allows for the recovery of crashed drones and analyzes flight data and the causes of crashes. The company is also working on drone detection systems.
The DroneBullet drone is launched manually. All the operator needs to do to deploy it is identify the target in the sky.
Inside the comparatively small body of the DroneBullet, there are a camera and various components based on neural networks, allowing it to independently perform the necessary calculations to determine the optimal flight trajectory required to hit the target.
According to Kenig, the kamikaze drone determines the moment and point of attack itself. If the target is a small drone, the strike will come from below. However, if the target is a larger drone, the DroneBullet will attack from above, aiming for the most vulnerable spot on the UAV, where the GPS module and unprotected rotors are usually located.
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