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Fortem’s F700 DroneHunter: Open Architecture Autonomous Drone-to-Drone Combat

By Brian Garrett-Glaser

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

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Fortem Technologies released a new autonomous counter-drone solution it calls the F700 DroneHunter: a drone that can be mounted with a variety of countermeaures to protect refineries, stadiums and other critical infrastructure from drone threats without any risk to civilians or property on the ground, according to the company. The F700, with a maximum payload weight of 5 pounds, leverages an open architecture design to use tools like radar and net guns to locate, capture and tow to the ground…

Space

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Congress

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Pentagon

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Congress

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