The South African aerospace and defence company, Paramount Aerospace Industries, is developing an unmanned aerial vehicle to address a growing security challenge.
The Mwari Counter-UAS, as the system is called, is intended to combat the surge in threat posed by one-way attack drones to the country’s most pivotal infrastructure, military facilities, maritime ports, and critical energy infrastructure.
The system is an upgrade from the company’s former UAS iteration, the Mwari’s multi-mission architecture, as it integrates airborne surveillance, target identification, and an array of kinetic effector options integrated within a single, rapidly deployable aircraft platform.
According to Paramount, as seen on Defensepost, the Mwari Counter-UAS configuration leverages the aircraft’s flexible mission architecture and specialized sensor stations to facilitate the detection, identification, tracking, and engagement of low-altitude unmanned aerial threats.
“An advanced electro-optical targeting system provides the crew with day and night surveillance, target identification and tracking capabilities, while the aircraft’s configurable mission systems architecture allows additional surveillance and detection sensors to be integrated according to customer requirements,” Paramount said.
