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C-UAS Drone Dome system recommended by DoD after demonstrations

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November 30, 2022

Dan Taylor

Technology Editor

Military Embedded Systems

C-UAS Drone Dome system recommended by DoD after demonstrations
Photo courtesy Rafael

HAIFA, Israel. The U.S. Department of Defense's Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) has recommended Rafael Systems' counter-UAS (C-UAS) Drone Dome system after a series of demonstrations at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona earlier this year, the company announced in a statement.

The system "demonstrated its C-UAS capabilities, which included accurate detection, identification and soft-kill capabilities against a variety of drone targets and is now eligible and has been recommended to compete for future CaaS [C-UAS as a service] contract opportunities," the company stated.

The Drone Dome uses an RPS-42 radar, an electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) system, and a radio frequency (RF) detection and mitigation system, the statement reads.

Rafael describes Drone Dome as modular infrastructure that can defeat both kinetic and electronic effectors using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.

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