When Drones Go Dark

While you might consider a drone as something akin to a toy airplane embedded with a computer — you can buy one on Amazon after all. But the reality is that a drone can be deployed to cause affray, accidents, and murder.

In the last few years, we’ve seen drones close down major airports , to deliver drugs and contrabands to prison inmates. In 2018. an attempted assassination attempt was made against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro involving explosive drones. In 2019 two drone attacks against key oil installations inside Saudi Arabia damaged facilities that process the vast majority of the country’s crude output and raised the risk of a disruption in world oil supplies. has used drones to drop explosives and guide car bombs from above.

I recently spoke with Adam Robertson co-founder and CTO of Fortem Technologies, producers of the world’s most advanced miniature radar for drone detection, a highly autonomous flying drone hunter system.

Fortem monitors, protects, and defends the world’s corridors, venues, infrastructures, borders, and regions from dangerous or malicious drone threats. The same ecosystem is accelerating the safety of the world’s airspace for urban air mobility. Their products have been developed and tested over several years through the US Department of Defense applications and are now available for commercial use.