Click Bond CLICK BOND WHAT’S THE HOLE STORY? Once upon a time, system installations required holes, which meant drilling and welding. This was dangerous and expensive. Attachment hardware, such as bolts, added extra weight. Then a company named Click Bond invented fasteners that didn’t require installation holes – they were adhesive bonded. Because there were no more holes, the fasteners preserved structural integrity and reduced weight. For decades, thousands of design engineers have used them on countless manned and unmanned programs, and they all lived happily ever after. The end. Adhesive-Bonded Assembly Technology #NoMoreHoles A radio receiver system that can detect all kinds of agile signals across 40 GHz of spectrum to detect rogue UAVs has been unveiled (writes Nick Flaherty). The 953 Communications Intelligence (COMINT) Radio Frequency (RF) receiver, from SPX CommTech, identifies and tracks RF signals coming from UAVs. The receiver performs continuous, autonomous remote and real-time signal collection up to 80 MHz bandwidth across a frequency of up to 40 GHz for signal monitoring, collection and direction-finding. This bandwidth delivers a sweet spot between monitoring sufficient signal breadth and amplitude to identify threats, including RF signals that are moving around. It is powered by removable hot-swappable batteries and is IP67-rated to withstand temperatures of up to 50 oC. It also has removable storage of up to 2 Tbytes. It runs on the Blackbird software, which detects, identifies, direction-finds and tracks signals of interest, as well as mitigate threats from electronic warfare. It also tracks the RF emissions of UAVs and their controllers or data links to support counterresponses. The software can also record the signal environment for lookback analysis without interrupting the current mission. This simplifies the collection task and can trigger automated actions and support unattended operations. Blackbird also uses geolocation to enable defence teams to visualise the location of the frequencies for better intelligence gathering and threat management. The system is backwards-compatible with previous COMINT versions and other technologies from SPX, which was formed from the combination of TCI and ECS. It can also be integrated with open source or customer-supplied mapping. Comms Spectrum of threats The 953 COMINT counter-UAS RF detector system
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