DroneShield launches DroneGun Mk4

DroneShield launched the DroneGun Mk4 (pictured), a “rugged pistol jammer” with enhanced performance ranges compared with its previous variants. (DroneShield)

Australian company DroneShield has launched a new variant of its DroneGun family of counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UASs), developed in response to end-user feedback, using the “latest science in waveform design, jamming techniques, and other technologies”, the CEO and managing director of the company, Oleg Vornik, told Janes on 5 April.

The new variant, DroneGun Mk4, is a “rugged (IP67) pistol jammer”, with enhanced performance ranges compared with its lighter DroneGun Mk3 predecessor, and is also a lighter and smaller product compared with the 7 kg DroneGun Tactical, Vornik said.

The company said DroneGun Mk4 is effective against a wide range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and can disrupt the control, navigation, and video of multiple UAVs simultaneously.

Once disruption is triggered, a hostile UAV is typically compelled to do a vertically controlled landing on the spot, or return to the operator, the company added.