Echodyne says its EchoShield radar has been selected and integrated into the BAE Systems Anti Threat System, known as BATS, a modular counter-drone system that recently completed live trials in Scotland. The radar supplies the tracking and classification data BATS uses to detect and respond to drones.
The release, as issued by Echodyne
Echodyne EchoShield® Selected for BAE Systems Anti Threat System
High-fidelity MESA® radar data strengthens BATS’ integrated “sense, decide, effect” mission chain
Echodyne, the radar platform company, today announced that its EchoShield radar has been selected and integrated into the BAE Systems Anti Threat System (BATS), providing the precise, persistent airspace data required to detect, classify, track and respond to uncrewed threats. BATS recently completed live trials in Scotland, demonstrating its ability to integrate multiple sensors and effectors through a single command-and-control architecture to identify and respond to evolving drone threats in real time. EchoShield® has been selected as one of the sensors supporting this open and interoperable architecture.
BAE Systems is Europe’s largest defense company with its equipment, systems and services fielded by more than 25 European nations. BATS is a modular, software-defined counter-uncrewed systems capability that connects current and future sensors and effectors through a secure, resilient data core. The system fuses sensing, intelligence, command and control, decision support and countermeasures within a single modular architecture.
Effective counter-UAS operations begin with accurate and reliable sensor data. Radar must detect threats at actionable range, sustain stable tracks through complex maneuvers and provide the position and classification data needed by command systems, optical sensors and effectors. The quality of that data directly affects decision speed, target identification, effector assignment and engagement success. High-fidelity radar data is therefore the essential foundation of an effective counter-UAS mission chain.
Echodyne’s proprietary metamaterials electronically scanned array (MESA) technology brings high-performance electronically scanned array radar to demanding C-UAS missions in a compact, commercially scalable format. EchoShield provides BATS with persistent, high-fidelity tracks, advanced threat classification and the precise location data needed to support sensor fusion and rapid decision-making. Its low size, weight and power (SWaP) enable deployment-agnostic operations, delivering consistent performance across fixed installations, rapidly deployable configurations and on-the-move platforms.
The open, modular architecture of BATS enables integration with existing and future sensors, effectors, air-defense systems and command-and-control platforms. The capability can scale from point defense to wide-area protection and support fixed-site, semi-mobile and mobile missions across military, government and critical-infrastructure environments.
Echodyne supplies radars to leading defense companies, and its products are integrated into hundreds of C-UAS systems worldwide, many of which are also available through the Joint Interagency Task Force 401 C-UAS Marketplace. The company recently opened an advanced manufacturing facility in Washington State, eventually scaling manufacturing capacity to more than 30,000 radars per year, strengthening Echodyne’s ability to meet growing global demand for highly capable, commercially priced and readily available counter-UAS radar at scale.
