Lorenzo Mariani, MBDA Executive Group Sales and Business Development, said: “Signing this export contract marks a crucial step in our commitment to ensuring the security and sovereignty of our partners around the world. Sky Warden provides an innovative and comprehensive response to the challenges posed by asymmetric air threats. This unique drone-fighting system combines state-of-the-art technology, unprecedented flexibility, and a constantly evolving capability. With Sky Warden, we offer our customers robust and adaptable protection against all UAV threats, today and tomorrow.”
Sky Warden is a multi-layer system designed to defend against micro to tactical drones at ranges of up to eight kilometres. It builds on MBDA’s multi-sensor, multi-effector command-and-control architecture and uses artificial intelligence to detect, identify and classify airborne threats.
The system integrates a range of effectors including the CILAS Helma-P laser weapon, omni and directional jammers, MBDA HTK interceptors and the Mistral 3 missile, which has a success rate above 96 per cent. Its architecture is modular and scalable, allowing users to adapt the system to evolving UAV threats.
Sky Warden can be deployed in fixed or mobile configurations and linked with medium-range air defence systems such as VL MICA or CAMM-ER. MBDA said the system continues to evolve, supported by the recent acquisition of the Helma-P laser to expand its range of effectors.
