In mid-October, the U.S. embassy in Trinidad and Tobago became so concerned about a potential environmental catastrophe posed by a listing Venezuelan oil tanker that it issued a formal statement of warning. The tanker, a storage and offloading vessel named the Nabarima, had been listing badly for weeks by that time, threatening to dump its 1.3-million barrel cargo of crude oil into Venezuelan waters and impacting surrounding nations and islands.
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IXI participated in an interview for an article covering C-UAS trends with Military Embedded Systems Associate Editor, Emma Helfrich.
“In the counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) arena, the threats they are designed to mitigate depend heavily on the market for which they are intended. A back-and-forth between UAS advancements and growth in the C-UAS industry dictate to manufacturers what these systems need and how much funding it will take to get them there. What is apparent, however, is autonomous aircraft are becoming more ubiquitous in both military and commercial markets, and along with that so are the systems required to counter them.”
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C-UAS philosophy and needs dictate system advancements
