Drones in civil airspace

In Germany integration of drones into civil airspace is still a problem due to reliability and safety of collision warning systems. Now sensor solutions provider Hensoldt spread the news, that it is taking the development of its collision warning system for civil and military drones to a new level. The demonstrator study for a “detect-and-avoid…

Hensoldt provides air surveillance to Ukraine

Hensoldt is supplying Ukraine with six more TRML-4D high-performance radars to strengthen its air defense. The order is worth 100 million euros. Delivery of the radars is scheduled for the second half of the year. The TRML-4D uses so-called Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar technology with multiple digitally shaped beams. It is capable of…

German Experimental Space Surveillance and Tracking Radar

Hensoldt has agreed to cooperate with the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Technology FHR with the aim of transforming the technology demonstrator GESTRA (German Experimental Space Surveillance and Tracking Radar) into a series-production ready, operationally deployable system called Custodian. “Based on the GESTRA technology, a global network of ground-based radar systems can…

Third Wave Artificial Intelligence

Technology is ready for “Third Wave Artificial Intelligence”, specialists say. After First Wave, where humans programmed the what-if-algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) simply used these, and Second Wave, where humans fed AI with data and it found statistical correlations by itself, Third Wave aims to develop an AI that is not restricted to one specific…