Developing New Anti-Drone Radar Technology

Today's drone threat calls for small and lightweight radars with excellent detection range and coverage. That's already tricky, as most radars do either one or the other. In the planning of IRIS, a new drone radar system, Robin Radar Systems pledged not to make that compromise. That is a steep task from a technical perspective, without throwing in a small and lightweight form factor and full coverage into the mix. IRIS was designed to be easily lifted, transported and deployed and redeployed as needed, which is pretty unusual for most radar systems. Starting from scratch, that gave Robin Radar's technical team only two and a half years to transform an almost blank sheet of paper, except for a few high-level specifications, into a working product.

The big question is, how do you make that happen?