DRONELOCK System Developed by SKYLOCK, Israel is a Hard Kill System to Effectively Tackle Swarm Drones

By Arie Egozi

Editor Defence Industry

Tel Aviv. The growing threat of swarms of armed drones brings Israeli companies to develop defence systems. One of these companies is SKYLOCK that has developed a hard kill system against swarms of drones.

 

According to Asaf Lebovitz, the company’s Vice President – Sales, the DRONELOCK system is aimed to deal with swarms of drones and can work with radar or without it. If a radar is used to detect the incoming drones, the coordinates are transferred to the small killer drones that are launched in reprogrammed numbers.

“The systems can launch between 1 and 20 killer drones. Normally the systems launches at least two killer drones”, he added. Elaborating further, he pointed out that the system works where other systems that are deigned to disrupt the communication link with the drone, fail.

 

Each of the SKYLOCK killer drones weigh 960 grams and can operate at a max range of 4 km and an altitude of 4 km. The cruise speed of the killer drone is 150-200 km/h. Each killer drone is equipped with an optical 4K sensor that can work, according to the company in day and low light conditions.

According to SKYLOCK, the killer drone optical sensor can detect a drone from a range of up to 400 meters. “By a combination of AI and machine vision, our killer drone aims at the soft spots of the incoming drone like the propellers and battery”, informed Asaf Lebovitz.

 

Additionally, the company SKYLOCK has developed a wearable anti-drone system that can neutralize drones using radio frequencies that are supposed to make them immune to anti-drone systems. SKYLOCK ‘s wearable system weighs only 1.5 kilograms (both the RF detector and the Jammer weighs the same, i.e. 730 grams). The system, worn like a vest, is capable of neutralizing any drone within one kilometer of the device and the RF detector scans a sector of 270 degrees in front of the person wearing the system.

The system allows special units to neutralize efforts of the enemy to detect the soldiers by using a drone. “The operator of such a drone will not get any warning that the drone is jammed”, Lebovitz said.

The wearable system was developed in cooperation with Danish company MyDefense. According to the company, the anti-drone wearable system has already been sold to the U.S. Army and NATO forces. Another growing market for the anti-drone wearable system is luxury yachts used by celebrities, who don’t want to be exposed to paparazzi photographers using drones.