WASHINGTON, DC – In the wake of a reportedly foiled explosive-drone plot targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House earlier in June, President Donald Trump’s past comments regarding anti-drone technology have resurfaced during a Fox News interview with the CEO of the robotics defense company Allen Control Systems.
Reportedly five alleged accelerationists were arrested earlier in June regarding a purported plot involving drones armed with explosives meant to target the UFC Freedom 250 event held at the White House on June 14th. Authorities allege the conspirators devised a plot consisting of two waves of attack, with the first wave involving various explosions to meant divert authorities followed by a second wave storming the White House gates amid the chaos.
While the investigation into the alleged plot is ongoing, a robotics defense company based out of Texas is garnering increased attention after President Trump’s past remarks on anti-drone technology have resurfaced in light of the foiled plot to target the White House.
Appearing telephonically on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” on April 12th, President Trump was gushing over modern anti-drone technology capabilities, stating, “We knocked them out. We knocked out where they make the drones and the drones are less effective now. And also, we have new machinery to kill the drones. You saw that. The computerized bullets, they call it, and also lasers. The laser melts the drone. It's a beautiful thing to see.”
The aforementioned clip was featured during a June 17th broadcast of Fox News’ “Mornings with Maria,” where Allen Control Systems CEO Mike Wior made a guest appearance on the show’s panel to discuss his company’s latest innovations following a successful round of Series B funding that netted approximately $200 million.
Wior delved into the company’s “Bullfrog” anti-drone technology during the interview, describing the tech now being utilized by the military as a “robotic gimbal” which is able to calculate the movement of a drone and precisely launch a projectile to that anticipated area of movement and disable the unmanned craft.
“It is essentially a very, very fast and accurate system that is able to take a ballistic solution that you would need to intersect a bullet with a drone and be precise and quick enough to perform that,” Wior stated, later adding, “As a drone is maneuvering in the air, they start to tilt in a certain direction. And as we see it tilt in that direction, we can start to anticipate where it's going to go from there and put the bullet where it needs to.”
According to the Allen Control Systems CEO, the Bullfrog anti-drone technology has demonstrated a 100% success rate during the last two evaluations. The next move for the company and their dealings with the military is to explore potentially semi-autonomous functionality of the Bullfrog technology given the scale at which hostile drones could be deployed.
“As the threat expands and we start to have hundreds of drones in the sky that you can't let an operator approve each one, we're going to have to carefully consider how we expand the system's ability to engage quickly enough,” Wior concluded.
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