Boresight puts drone swarm in US Marines' hands in Hawaii

JMM

Australian defence technology company Boresight (ASX: BST) is demonstratrating its drone swarming system to the US Marine Corps in Hawaii.

The two-day demonstration, held at a US Marines base in Honolulu, showcased Boresight’s one-to-many system, which allows a single ground control station to operate a swarm of up to 20 aerial target drones. The Marines are assessing the system for use in their training activities.

After a half-hour session on how the system operates, the Marines set the route the drones would fly and operated the swarm themselves.  The ease of use of Boresights Ground Control System allowed US Marines to control a swarm of drones

Boresight Vice President of Business Development James Prior said the system was designed so that operators without specialist piloting skills could run complex training scenarios. That frees a military’s highly trained first-person-view (FPV) drone pilots for high priority work in the field.

“Highly skilled FPV pilots are a valuable and limited resource. You don't want them tied up flying training drones when their expertise is needed for higher-value operational tasks,” Mr Prior said.

“Our system is designed so that either military personnel or FPV specialists can create and validate realistic flight profiles with only minimal training. Once validated, those missions can be executed by a much broader pool of operators using our ground control system, freeing experienced FPV pilots to focus on where they add the greatest value.”

Mr Prior said. “The feedback on our drones and ground control system has been extremely positive due to the ease of use, and ability fly multiple drones repeatedly”

The demonstration follows the Counter-UAS Indo-Pacific Conference, held in Honolulu earlier in the week, which Boresight attended.

Boresight’s aerial target drone ecosystem combines attritable quadrotor and fixed-wing drones with mission planning software and scalable ground control systems. Customers use it to emulate evolving drone threats in repeatable counter-drone training and testing. The ASX-listed company has teams in Australia, the United States and Europe.

Boresight delivers an integrated aerial target drone ecosystem that enables realistic C-UAS training and testing for government and industry. The company’s systems combine attritable aerial target drones, mission planning software and scalable ground control systems to support threat emulation and operational readiness. Boresight’s platform range includes quadrotor and fixed-wing aerial target drones designed to replicate evolving drone threats and enable repeatable testing and training scenarios without risking high-value ISR assets. With teams in Australia, the United States and Europe, Boresight supports customers globally with scalable C-UAS training solutions, integrated engineering and production capabilities.

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