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Field notes from the thermal edge.

Detection algorithms, fleet operations, C2 integration — lessons from building and deploying passive thermal counter-UAS, written by the people doing it.

Night view over a valley with cellular masts and an aircraft locked in a tracking box above the skyline
STRATEGYBaruch GlickAugust 19, 202614 min

The Drone Is Also a Subscriber

A growing share of long-range drones fly on somebody’s mobile network — and that operator can see the connection from the inside and cut it without emitting a thing. The missing piece was never the mechanism. It was identifying which subscriber, fast enough to matter.

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Abstract illustration of a thermal horizon with ground range rings, an elevation sweep and a single locked contact above the skyline
STRATEGYGOTEAMAugust 13, 20269 min

The Drone Stopped Cooperating

A 36-page Q&A from serving Ukrainian officers publishes the list almost nobody publishes — the counter-drone kit that was bought and did not survive contact. Read the failures in order and they sort by one principle: every method that worked depends on the drone emitting something.

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Real GOTEAM thermal detection of a drone resolved against hot treeline clutter
STRATEGYBaruch GlickJuly 23, 20268 min

No single sensor wins the drone war

Australia is funding both halves of the answer — layered sensing and a shot cheap enough to use. Read Department 13 and EOS Defence Systems together and the same conclusion falls out: RF can’t see the drone that doesn’t transmit, and an effector is only as good as the track that cues it.

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Real GOTEAM thermal detection of a small distant drone against the sky, detected passively with no radar cue
REGULATIONBaruch GlickJuly 20, 20267 min

The rules just changed. Build your counter-drone plan around EO/IR.

The new C-UAS rule split the market in two: detection you can deploy today, mitigation you wait in a licensing queue for. How buyers should re-strategize — and why passive EO/IR is the layer that’s clear to switch on now.

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Real GOTEAM thermal detection of a small distant drone against the sky, crosshair-locked with a zoom inset
TECHNOLOGYBaruch GlickJuly 19, 20266 min

The camera that can only look one way

Cooled-MWIR pan-tilt-zoom sensors are sold on range. Against small, autonomous, swarming drones a moving camera can only watch one thing at a time — here’s why fixed-stare thermal plus AI is the more robust counter-UAS architecture.

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Thermal night view of a warship and a small fast craft, both AI-tracked
STRATEGYBaruch GlickJuly 12, 20267 min

How to sink a navy with a $500 drone

Ukraine is fighting Sun Tzu’s war with uncrewed systems that cost less than the missiles fired at them. What the asymmetry means for ports, offshore assets and anyone with something on the water.

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Thermal night view of a vessel at sea with an AI targeting reticle
VIP & MARITIMEBaruch GlickJuly 12, 20264 min

Protecting VIPs from drones

What a warship-escorted superyacht tells us about protecting VIPs in the drone era — and why radar, RF and jamming don’t travel with a principal. The case for a passive thermal layer.

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Real annotated thermal frame — drone locked by the live tracker
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMBaruch GlickJune 12, 20265 min

A detection nobody can review is a rumor

In counter-UAS, hardware is table stakes — the detection algorithm and the management system decide whether a site is actually protected. Four questions every fleet owner eventually asks, and how GOTEAM Hub answers them.

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