The current status: billions are being spent around the world on how to tackle aerial drone warfare.
The problem: how do you provide systemised training in a defence force setting for a highly randomised occurrence?
The solution: repeatable cost-effective training.
Australian company Boresight Ltd is working on an end-to-end ecosystem including target drones, a control system and training that can be easily implemented repeatedly and cost-effectively.
Across NATO militaries, Indo-Pacific partners, and beyond, the gap between the sophistication of counter-drone weapons and the quality of training to use them effectively is widening.
Governments and defence departments around the world are spending billions on missiles, lasers, kinetic weapons systems, and electronic warfare systems to defeat the growing threat of drones.
But what good is that hardware if the operators behind it have never trained against realistic drone threats?
One Australian defence company is tackling the counter-drone readiness crisis that governments and military planners have left largely unaddressed, until now.
“Every dollar spent on a counter-drone weapon system is an assumption that the person holding it knows what they’re doing. Right now, that assumption is not being tested anywhere near enough. We are equipping soldiers with the right tools and then crossing our fingers. That is not a strategy, it’s a risk that compounds every year the training gap remains unaddressed.” Justin Olde says.
Justin Olde is a military veteran with over 25 years of service in the Australian Army. He’s also the Managing Director of Canberra based Boresight Ltd.
The company's mission is direct: provide highly capable, affordable, and expendable drones as aerial targets, giving military forces the realistic, repeatable training they desperately need but have rarely been given the resources to pursue.
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About Boresight
Boresight Ltd delivers an integrated aerial target drone ecosystem that enables realistic counter-UAS training and testing for defence forces. The company’s systems combine attritable aerial target drones, mission planning software and scalable ground control systems to support threat emulation and operational readiness. Boresight’s platform range includes quadrotor and fixed-wing aerial targets designed to replicate evolving drone threats and enable repeatable training scenarios without risking high-value ISR assets. With teams in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, Boresight supports defence partners globally with scalable training infrastructure and integrated engineering and production capability. Boresight was established by personnel with long term experience within the UAV, defence, intelligence, and law enforcement domains, with the aim of providing highly capable but affordable and expendable target drones.
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