Rocket attack early warning system – Alarm
Reflecting 70 years of radar expertise, a team of QinetiQ scientists, designers and engineers achieved the near-impossible: creating a unique weapons detection system that predicts the impact of low trajectory rocket attacks, better protecting personnel by giving them time to take evasive action. Alarm™ was an R&D triumph: initial research funded by external sources transformed concept into prototype in just eight months, delivering an unprecedented 100% success rate in tests.
Amazingly, it was only 18 months from blank page to delivering a qualified automated system that people can assemble in three hours. With its market-leading capabilities being software-based rather than hardware-restricted, the product’s inherent flexibility enables rapid adaptation for a raft of military and civilian applications: from software tweaks to detect slower moving unmanned aerial vehicles, to revised hardware set-up for easy deployment at government sites, oil installations and other locations.
Remarkable radar
Alarm is a great example of scientists and engineers, including the customer, working together towards a common goal. Our various insights and complementary skills combined to create a world-first; rapid engineering, rapid prototyping – a remarkable radar for real front-line benefit.
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