(Below is the verbatim of the story that aired)
The war in Ukraine has for the first time demonstrated the impact ordinary drone technology can have on the battlefield.
(I think that the side that figures out how to stop the other sides drones is going to have a huge advantage in the next conflict and I would put more money in defensive drone technology more than offensive drone technology.” said Lt. Col. Daniel Davis.
The drones aren’t hardened military tech. They’re right off the shelf.
And local company High Point aerotechnologies is at the forefront of knocking them down.
“We produce a product called the sawtooth.it is a counter uas system that identifies tracks detects and defeats nefarious drones.”
High Point was initially a company called Black Sage, started by two Boise residents.
1257 “They met at a coffeeshop and wrote an on a napkin an idea that they had.”
And this was their idea, an anti drone contraption that I first saw years ago while covering a story in the foothills. I asked what it was, they told me it was anti drone technology but they couldn’t do a story because they were showing it to the military.”