BAE Systems has successfully completed live trials of its Anti-Threat System (BATS) in Scotland, demonstrating the complete BATS ‘sense, decide, effect’ mission chain against uncrewed aerial threats through a single integrated command-and-control architecture. The trials, conducted over a two-week period, validated BATS’ end-to-end operational workflow, enabling operators to coordinate multiple sensors and effectors to identify and respond to evolving drone threats in real time. As recent conflicts and security incidents have shown, uncrewed aerial systems have become increasingly accessible and capable so there is an urgent requirement for armed forces and critical national infrastructure to detect and defeat evolving threats…
