Posted on 10/01/2019 8:42:47 AM PDT by BeauBo
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is putting up an invisible bubble along the southern border to stop drug-smuggling drones mid-flight.
The agency signed a nearly $1.2 million contract with Citadel, a company that develops systems to counter unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones. The company will provide CBP with six Titan Counter Drone defense systems, according to a CBP spokesperson.
The kits include a signal box that deploys a 3-km “bubble” around a protected area and a monitor to identify and alert the user to any drones entering that airspace. Any drones entering the bubble are commandeered by the system and set safely on the ground.
According to Citadel, the signal intelligence and targeted jamming tool can be deployed within three minutes.
The company says its system uses artificial intelligence to stay on top of new drone technologies. Along with the physical systems, the CBP contract also includes 12 months of software upgrades, support and training, as well as a one-year warranty.
“Drones have become a greater challenge along the border. Our nation's border agents deserve the safest and most advanced technology available,” Citadel CEO Christopher Williams said in a release. “Citadel's automated solution provides front-line operators with awareness of drone threats and decision-making to respond faster than the adversary.”
While the initial rollout is limited to six systems, Williams told Nextgov the contract could expand in the future.
“Technology is being deployed in limited quantities in 2019 after months of testing and validation,” he said. “Following 2020 presidential budget decisions, the potential for additional systems at larger quantities will be explored.”
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Boarder: the installer of board. Also, a tenant that pays for food as well as shelter.
Border: a line of demarcation between specific areas, IE an international BORDER, a county BORDER, etc.
WORDS MEAN THINGS!!
Link, please.
Jamming is also only a problem if you remain in range of the Jammer. If you know where the jamming bubbles are, it's not great feat to program the drone to fly far beyond it's range and then reacquire a control signal within some radius of your drop point.
Also, I wouldn't rely solely on GPS for navigation. I would use the GPS, but I would give an inertial navigation system outvoting rights over the GPS. They can spoof GPS, but they can't spoof your inertial movements and orientations. Use inertial guidance to get your gross location, and when the GPS and inertial approximately confirm each other, you can switch back to GPS for accuracy.
All this capability for only $10K? Link, please.
Well, except for that whole “projectiles crossing into a foreign land” stuff.
I don't have any particular link. I just have years of education and experience in the field of radio systems and equipment.
Radio makes copious use of filters to restrict reception of wavelengths which are desired to be rejected. If you build in enough filtering, Microwaves cannot get through your band pass filters.
H3ll, Naval radar routinely shuts off high powered microwave transmissions so that their highly sensitive receiver can detect the faint RF echos of a return target signal. They've been doing this since WWII.
Stopping microwaves from getting into your receiver is really not even difficult. It's hard enough to get them to even travel through coax, let alone if you are trying to stop them.
All this capability for only $10K? Link, please.
What is this with all the requests for links? 10K is a number I pulled out of the air. I could probably build something like this for 10K, but just for the sake of argument let's make it 100k. Still cheaper than letting a million dollars worth of drugs get interdicted, and you can reuse the D@mned thing for multiple trips.
Since you want a link, I read about this some years back.
Put a bounty on the drones. Let Capitalism do the rest.
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This is the solution. Pay hunters $25 for each drone delivered. Bonus $10 for payload capture.
It's cheaper in the long run for the cartel to use off-the-shelf drones and throw them away than to develop a custom re-usable one.
If it were otherwise, we'd be seeing custom drones just like we see custom semi-submersible boats.
This is likely true at present, but if the article is correct, it won't be true going into the future. I really don't know how much payload value a drone can carry, so perhaps it's nothing like a million. Perhaps it's only in the tens of thousands of dollars.
If it were otherwise, we'd be seeing custom drones just like we see custom semi-submersible boats.
I read an article many years ago in which they were building a full fledged Submarine somewhere in Central or South America. The cops captured it in dry dock, and it was using some pretty advanced submarine technology.
Or, it could be a misspelling. If you stay calm, and think clearly, you can figure out what was intended without getting any panties twisted up.
A gift of precious metals, copper-coated lead. Who could object? ...and if they can’t control the cartels, most people don’t GAF,
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