Indra demonstrates its Crow system's ability to counter complex drone attacks
Indra has demonstrated in the Anti-Drone Interoperability Exercises (TIE24), organised by NATO's Communications and Information Agency (NCIA), the ability of its Crow anti-drone system to interoperate with all types of systems and adapt to each mission and type of attack, even those in which swarms of drones modified to resist countermeasures are used.
Given the variety of environments and different types of drones, advanced militaries are looking for anti-drone systems that can flexibly adapt to each specific mission and scenario. With this in mind, Crow's command and control system demonstrated its ability to integrate with 27 sensors and effectors from different manufacturers in Europe during these, NATO's largest exercises, which took place in September in the Netherlands.
The system used NATO's new interoperability standard (C-UAS AEDP-4869), previously known as SAPIENT, which allows the integration of all types of technologies in an extremely simple way, practically plug&play.
Indra participated with it in the ‘blind’ exercises, known as Performance Challenge, with which NATO sought to validate the new interoperability standard that should ensure that the technologies of allied countries can be combined to always have the most advanced anti-drone solution.
Indra's head of this solution, Juan López Campos, explained that ‘Crow's command and control system offers each army complete freedom to configure the system that best meets their needs. The solution is also prepared to work in combination with the command and control systems of other allied countries and to be integrated into the future combat cloud.
Another important advantage of Indra's system is its high usability. In fact, Crow was used by military operators who had not previously been trained to operate it, without this being a problem.
Tracking the sky
During the exercises, Indra also tested its new radio frequency sensor as part of the specific tests carried out by the study group of the Unmanned Aerial Systems Detection and Classification by Radio Frequency (NATO SET-204) project. This system also used the new NATO interoperability standard to integrate with other command and control systems.
This is the latest sensor to be added to Indra's existing range of systems, which include state-of-the-art radars, electro-optical systems, radio frequency systems and jammers (signal jamming systems).
The Spanish Air Force has used Indra's Crow system in real missions, such as the one in Mali. Other State Security Forces and Corps have used the same system to protect airspace in large international conventions and events.