{"id":18072,"date":"2019-02-14T22:12:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/australian-weapon-tech-droneshield-scores-a-bullseye-in-south-america\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T22:12:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T03:12:04","slug":"australian-weapon-tech-droneshield-scores-a-bullseye-in-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/?p=18072","title":{"rendered":"Australian weapon tech DroneShield scores a bullseye in South America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anti-drone tech manufacturer DroneShield is proving increasingly popular with foreign governments, with the company announcing today announcing a \u201cmajor South American governmental agency\u201d has placed an order for its latest DroneGun.<\/p>\n

The ASX-listed company hasn\u2019t revealed any details about which company placed the order, other than the fact it\u2019s allied with the US (so presumably this excludes Venezuela).<\/p>\n

This will be the first time the DroneGun Tactical (pictured above with Christopher Pyne) will be deployed in South America, although other anti-solutions have been purchased by the Paraguayan government and a mystery government in central America.<\/p>\n

Despite the DroneGun Tactical being assigned a NATO Stock Number earlier this month to speed up international procurement processes, the sale to the unnamed South American government still needs regulatory approval from the US, where DroneShield also has operations in the state of Virginia.<\/p>\n

The sci-fi-esque DroneGun interrupts signals between drone operators and the device on \u201ca wide range of commonly used drone models\u201d, cutting off video transmissions and causing the drone to either return to its starting point or initiate a controlled descent.<\/p>\n

Ambassador to the US Joe Hockey reviewing the DroneGun Tactical. Credit: DroneShield <\/p>\n

Anti-drone technology is growing in popularity within Australia, with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority telling Fairfax<\/em> <\/a>in December, around the time of the drone sightings in controlled airspace at the UK\u2019s Gatwick Airport, that CASA will begin electronically scanning for serial numbers of drones that breach the 5.5km exclusion zone around airports.<\/p>\n

Corrective Services NSW also flagged in November that it\u2019s scanning the market for anti-drone solutions following a government crackdown on the use of drones around prisons<\/a>, following more than 60 incidents in the last four years.<\/p>\n

The Queensland Police Service deployed DroneShield's MkII DroneGun<\/a> during last year's Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anti-drone tech manufacturer DroneShield is proving increasingly popular with foreign governments, with the company announcing today announcing a \u201cmajor South American governmental agency\u201d has placed an order for its latest DroneGun.<\/p>\n

The ASX-listed company hasn\u2019t revealed any details about which company placed the order, other than the fact it\u2019s allied with the US (so presumably this excludes Venezuela).<\/p>\n

This will be the first time the DroneGun Tactical (pictured above with Christopher Pyne) will be deployed in South America, although other anti-solutions have been purchased by the Paraguayan government and a mystery government in central America.<\/p>\n

Despite the DroneGun Tactical being assigned a NATO Stock Number earlier this month to speed up international procurement processes, the sale to the unnamed South American government still needs regulatory approval from the US, where DroneShield also has operations in the state of Virginia.<\/p>\n

The sci-fi-esque DroneGun interrupts signals bet..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}