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Tech Developments

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, December 17th, 2019

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Tech Developments

Verus Debuts New Fixed-Site Counter UAS System Verus Technology Group has introduced the SkyView-DIV2 fixed-site counter unmanned aircraft system (CUAS), its next-generation anti-drone technology for tracking and simultaneous multi-target detection of UAS. The SkyView-DIV2 will be formally released in Jan. 2020 and VTG has already received orders for the system. The company says the new system brings improvements in detection speed, improved API capabilities for simplified multi-sensor integration, and the same low-false start and ease-of-use characteristics featured in all of…

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