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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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