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SOFIC 2018: Pentagon fields X-MADIS to down drones

22nd May 2018 - 00:23 GMT | by Ashley Roque in Tampa, Florida

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A US military service has fielded a new technology to jam and down incoming enemy UAS.

At the request of the military, the Sierra Nevada Corporation, Ascent Vision and RADA Technologies pulled together to develop the eXpeditionary Mobile Aerial Defense Integrated System (X-MADIS). 

The system is a self-contained, mobile and integrated counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) that electronically jams multiple UAVs at a time that are several kilometers away.

Speaking with Shephard 21 May at SOFIC 2018, the team said a US service has now fielded the technology on a MRZR vehicle and they are pitching the C-UAS capability to

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Ashley Roque joined Shephard Media in January 2018 as its North American Editor, based in …

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