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Lockheed Martin Unveils Counter-UAS System

Tuesday, October 13th, 2015

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Lockheed Martin Unveils Counter-UAS System

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] Monday unveiled a device that can counteract Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) with non-kinetic cyber defeat options.The ICARUS, on display at the Association of the United States Army’s annual exposition in Washington, D.C., has a multi-spectral sensor system to detect and characterize in-bound UASs which it can then disable and jam or take over to safely land in a designated area.“When talking with customers, we believe that there’s an imminent threat approaching called the flying IED (Improvised Explosive…

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