MBDA Sky Warden

Sky Warden is MBDA's counter-unmanned-aircraft system, a modular command and control system that integrates and controls many kinds of sensors and effectors to deal with the whole range of drone threats, from micro drones to tactical drones and loitering munitions, as well as conventional air-breathing threats. It manages threat evaluation and weapons assignment, can be networked with radars, remote cameras and radio frequency finders and with effectors such as machine guns, jammers, directed energy weapons, UAVs and all Mistral launchers, and links to wider air defence networks over tactical datalink. It can be fitted to vehicles or used by dismounted troops, and artificial intelligence algorithms are used to keep false alarms close to zero. MBDA states that it is the only counter-UAV system able to manage the full counter-UAS and ground-based air defence kill chain from detection to neutralisation.