Australian company Daronmont Technologies has confirmed that a United States customer has bought its ‘Stealth’ passive radar system, representing their first export sale of this technology.
“As pioneers in the development of passive radar, we have invested heavily in the development of our Stealth passive radar system over several years. It is therefore very pleasing to see our US customer demonstrating its support for our product by placing this order," said Ben Norris, Daronmont's Chief Executive.
"As US Agencies employ the system and determine wider uses for the technology, we expect there will be many more orders”.
Daronmont has now delivered 12 units and expects increased deliveries over the coming year.
Passive radar provides the capability to detect without being detected, using reflections from third party transmission sources to detect sea, land and air targets. As it doesn’t emit a signal, the radar cannot be easily detected and targeted. It needs no licence to use and has no moving parts, making it easy to maintain.
Daronmont worked closely with the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group to commercialise passive radar technology and continues to develop this capability. In 2017 Daronmont won an $7.9 million investment from the Australian Defence Innovation Hub (DIH) to develop a portable passive radar for the Australian Defence Forces and which it successfully demonstrated in 2020.