{"id":57225,"date":"2015-05-26T11:04:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T11:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8843b7ca7993c301ea878633a357413e"},"modified":"2015-05-26T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T11:04:14","slug":"press-release-dstl-bristow-trial-develops-future-protection-against-hostile-uas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=57225","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Dstl Bristow trial develops future protection against hostile UAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovative ways to counter unmanned air systems (<abbr title=\"unmanned air systems\">UAS<\/abbr>) have been tested this month in the latest \u2018Bristow\u2019 trial hosted by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (<abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr>). The recent trial evaluated the ability of a range of sensor systems to detect, track, recognise and identify a number of small <abbr title=\"unmanned air systems\">UAS<\/abbr>. The trial also assessed the utility of counter <abbr title=\"unmanned air systems\">UAS<\/abbr> technologies. <\/p>\n<p>The deployment of <abbr title=\"unmanned air systems\">UAS<\/abbr> has provided the UK and its allies with one of the most significant military capability enhancements of recent years, delivering a wide range of effects in a number of roles, for example by protecting front line troops with small surveillance <abbr title=\"unmanned air systems\">UAS<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>It is recognised that <abbr title=\"unmanned air systems\">UAS<\/abbr> could be used to target UK interests by a potential adversary, so there is a need to understand the potential threat. <\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Bristow 15 Counter <abbr title=\"unmanned air systems\">UAS<\/abbr> (<abbr title=\"counter unmanned air systems\">C-UAS<\/abbr>)\u2019 trial at West Freugh, Scotland, which is the only trial of its kind outside of the USA, builds on previous <abbr title=\"unmanned air systems\">UAS<\/abbr> trials. It has allowed <abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr> to understand threat mitigation and developments by bringing various technology options together in one place.<\/p>\n<p>The trial was delivered with the support of QinetiQ and brought together a number of industry and Ministry of Defence partners, as well as international allies. <\/p>\n<p>More than one hundred <abbr title=\"unmanned air systems\">UAS<\/abbr> sorties flew in 6 flying days. Many of these were multiple launches (up to 6 at a time) flying increasingly complex tactical profiles. It allowed industry partners the opportunity to collect technical and operational data on the effectiveness of their own systems against small <abbr title=\"unmanned air systems\">UAS<\/abbr>. <\/p>\n<p>Through Bristow 15, <abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr> successfully proved that the UK can continue to pursue its own innovative solutions, paving the way for future trials and the development of countermeasures against hostile <abbr title=\"unmanned air systems\">UAS<\/abbr>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_1970\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>\n<abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr> Media Enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:press@dstl.gov.uk\">press@dstl.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Media enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              01980 658666\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              07901 892660\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government and industry have been working together to develop ways to combat unmanned air systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}