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Skylock to protect Ethiopia’s capital and troops from enemy drones

Patrick Kenyette by Patrick Kenyette
November 8, 2021
in UAS and C-UAS
Reading Time: 2 mins read

Israeli Skylock counter-UAS solution has been awarded a contract to provide anti-drone equipment to protect Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital city from enemy drones.

Skylock, a subsidiary of Avnon Group was given the contract late last month to help secure Ethiopia’s administrative complexes including its airports, and to equip the Ethiopian Army with anti-drone equipment as they battle with the Tigrayan rebels.

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Skylock, part of the Avnon HLS Group, designs and produce counter-drone technologies for the detection, verification and neutralisation of unauthorised drones.

The Israeli firm offers a wide range of comprehensive modular, scalable active (radar and jamming) and passive (non-kinetic and non-jamming) counter-drone technologies.

Although anti-government forces in Tigray are not known to operate drones of any kind. Rather, Ethiopian forces operates Iranian-made Mohajer-6 drones, as well as several Chinese surveillance drones.

At least two Mohajer-6 UAVs and a ground control stations were seen in Semara Airport in August and are most likely for evaluation before Ethiopia makes a larger purchase.

Meanwhile, Uk-based counter drone specialist Silent Sentinel signed a contract with SKYLOCK in May, to provide Jaegar Ranger 225 uncooled LWIR, and Jaegar Searcher 700 cooled MWIR thermal camera platforms to Zambia.

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The platform will help the East African nation better protect it’s infrastructure from unauthorized drones.

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