Radar technology specialist Echodyne has unveiled its EchoShield platform, the company’s most recent product development providing a wide array of mission capabilities for potential commercial, defense, and government clients.
Echodyne introduced the longer-range, 4D EchoShield radar as a next-generation supplement to its metamaterials electronically scanned array (MESA) systems. Those are operational in counter-UAS, border and base security, force protection, critical infrastructure security, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, UAV detect and avoid applications. The company described EchoShield as an advanced software-defined, new price-performance standard for radars, developed in close consultation with customers.
Reflecting what Echodyne heard the market asking for, the initial software release of EchoShield will prioritize counter-UAS missions, and detecting, tracking, and classifying uncrewed aircraft – including even low, slow, and…
