Technical guidance and operational perspectives on drone detection, Remote ID and counter-UAS from the AirSentinel team.
BLOG · AUG 22, 2026Drones have moved fast from hobbyist gadgets to real tools for surveillance, smuggling, and attack. For military and defence teams, treating airspace security as optional is no longer realistic. Choosing the right drone detection system for the military defence in understanding how the technology works, knowing what separates a strong system from a mediocre one, […]
Read articleMost content about drones and event security focuses on flying a camera-equipped drone above the crowd. That is a different problem entirely. This article covers the reverse scenario: an unauthorized aircraft entering the airspace over your event, and how a drone detection system identifies it before it becomes an incident. A drone detection system is […]
Read articleStadiums pack tens of thousands of people into a fixed, open-air footprint with almost no natural barrier above it. A metal detector at the gate does nothing for a threat that arrives from three hundred meters up and outside the perimeter fence. That gap is exactly why a growing number of venues now treat […]
Read articleCritical energy infrastructure faces an evolving, highly dynamic operational threat environment. Downstream oil refineries, offshore gas platforms, and midstream transmission networks require continuous perimeter awareness. Installing a specialized drone detection system provides early warning against unauthorized aerial intrusions, industrial espionage, and operational disruptions. However, integrating aerial monitoring within hazardous petrochemical environments requires precise engineering, rigorous […]
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BLOG · AUG 11, 2026Airspace security infrastructure is undergoing a fundamental architectural transition. For years, commercial enterprise sites relied on single-vendor protocol demodulators, most notably DJI AeroScope, as their primary drone detection system. These legacy installations operated by listening for known signal preambles and parsing unencrypted telemetry data streams. However, following DJI’s official discontinuation of AeroScope in March 2023 […]
Read articleWhile airports celebrate detecting 95% of Remote ID compliant drones, they’re missing 100% of the threats that actually matter. Last month alone, unidentified drone swarms appeared over multiple international airports, evading every detection system designed to protect them. These weren’t random hobbyist intrusions—they were sophisticated dark drones operating with military precision, invisible to traditional airport […]
Read articleThe call came at 2:47 AM. McCarran International Airport’s new $2.8 million drone detection system was screaming alerts—for the third time that week. Security teams rushed to investigate, only to discover another false alarm triggered by a plastic bag caught in desert winds. Meanwhile, just two miles away on the Las Vegas Strip, 200 drones […]
Read articleThe alarm sounds at 3:47 AM. Controllers at a major European airport scramble as their newly installed drone detection system triggers its fifteenth false alert this week—this time identifying a plastic bag as a “hostile drone swarm.” Meanwhile, three miles away, an actual autonomous drone completes its unauthorized surveillance mission, completely invisible to the million-dollar […]
Read articleYou’re sitting in a conference room with 3 different drone detection vendors. Each claims their solution is “best-in-class” and “airport-proven.” Their pitches all sound the same. So how do you choose? Here’s the uncomfortable truth: 70% of airport counter-drone implementations fail to meet expectations, not because of bad technology, but because airports asked the wrong […]
Read articleThe $64M Wake-Up Call Every Airport Must Heed A commercial airliner approaches San Francisco International Airport when suddenly, the pilot spots a drone outside the cockpit window-passing within 300 feet of their aircraft. This scenario is no longer rare. Over 3,000 drone events have occurred near American airports since 2021, with drones accounting for nearly […]
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