Red Sky 2

The Red Sky 2 Drone Defender System is a highly effective air defense and airspace protection solution against
malicious unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Designed to detect, disrupt, and neutralize UAVs, the combat-proven system provides a reliable, real-time aerial situation picture and can prevent drones from infiltrating sensitive locations such as stadiums, airports, secured compounds, and military bases.

The Red Sky 2 Drone Defender System incorporates multiple sensors, radar, E/O day and night camera, and SIGINT detector delivering real-time aerial situational picture with near zero false alarms. The system features electrooptical acquisition and tracing with powerful directional and multi-directional RF neutralization capabilities with full synchronization between system components.The cost-effective solution requires minimum personnel and can be operated from a sheltered location or in the
open field.

Unique aerial defense capabilities and operational flexibility

The compact Red Sky 2 integrates sophisticated drone tracking, detection, and neutralization components.

Radar system (RS) - The radar system is the fifth generation of 3D Tactical Air Defense Radars; X-Band, solid-state electronically scanned, pulse-Doppler radar provide a reliable, real-time aerial picture of targets, accurate target measurements of velocity, range, azimuth and elevation angles, target detection and tracking.

Tracing and jamming (TJ) - The solution’s tracking and jamming capabilities provide the central control unit (CU) with 3D coordinates (azimuth, elevation, and range). The operator identifies the target according to the thermal image, and initiates the jamming command remotely from the CU. The tracking and jamming unit features an electro-optic thermal day/night observation system (pedestal) including an automatic video tracker, an SD color day camera, and high-power reactive jammers for neutralization. The unit blocks common civilian drone, quad copter, and UAV bands, with no interference to nearby frequency bands.

Multi-directional (MD) jammer - The unit detects drones by analyzing signaling channels and radio transmissions. The MD jammer unit automatically deactivates the drone operations, blocking RF communication frequencies and GNSS. System configurations include fixed-site installation, a portable hand-bag configuration, and an on-the-move backpack configuration.

Central control unit (CU) - Controls and coordinates all of the system sensors and effectors, and all the Red Sky Drone Defender System activities.
All system activities – target detection, classification, identification, neutralization, and taking over the drones, are managed by a single operator. The CU provides computerized displays of live video images of the tracked target, a unique target acquisition algorithm that recommends optimal interception time, and full system control.

RF detector and Drone Neutralization System (DNS) - The DNS unit is a proactive counter drone solution that detects and mitigates drones nearing, around, or inside a secured perimeter.

DNS – solution layers:

Monitoring – The system continuously scans the surroundings of the secured site for drones, based on their RF communication signature.

Detection – When a drone is detected, the system presents its details on the dashboard: drone type, serial number, location, operator location.

Deny takeoff – If a drone is detected inside the geo-fenced area while still on the ground, the system takes over its controls before takeoff, denying flight altogether.

Airborne mitigation – The system takes over the drone’s control and lands it safely at a predefined location.