Aiming at Creating an Indigenous Capability
Exhibiting with local partner TRUST International Group, UK-based Allen-Vanguard will focus the attention of visitors to IDEX 2023 in Abu Dhabi next week on its ANCILE C-UAS solution and the SCORPION portable EOD electronic countermeasures system – supply of both of which systems to the UAE TRUST has recently supported.
Allen-Vanguard developed ANCILE to deliver outstanding RF inhibition to combat a wide variety of commercial drones. The system can be remotely updated with optimised inhibition waveforms, designed and developed using global threat intelligence gathered by the company’s Threat Management Team, ensuring robust, effective 360° degree no-fly zones applied to convoy protection, operational bases and static facilities alike. For the UAE, the company worked with partners to enable a vehicle-mounted ANCILE capability that can be transitioned to a ground station within five minutes. The system had previously been operated as protection for high-profile events, including the G7.
SCORPION is now also in service in the UAE, a first for the nation, which joins other countries in Europe, the Middle East and the southern hemisphere, whose bomb disposal squads also operate the system.
Using these deliveries as a springboard, Allen-Vanguard and partners intend to create an indigenous capability, backed by a first-class technical training and support infrastructure. The aim is to grow the necessary connections to local defence partners and academia, thus allowing regional initiatives to support all aspects of ECM capability, from manufacture and assembly through to the most crucial aspects of threat management and advanced mitigation techniques.
“This is an excellent example of how we seek to create local capability to help defeat terrorist threats in the Middle East and North African region […] to help create and develop a fully integrated and supported local capability that will evolve and endure as the threat changes,” commented the company’s Business Director for Africa, Stuart Wilson.
