Saudi Arabia To Procure GHOST Anti-Drone System From Turkey
Saudi Arabia has become the first export customer for the Turkish defense industry company ASER Technology’s GHOST anti-drone system. The export deal was signed at the Istanbul Swiss Hotel as part of the defense industry agreement between the Republic of Turkey and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Aslı Murat, Deputy General Manager of ASER Technology, as well as representatives from the Saudi General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI) and GHADI Holding Company, attended the ceremony.
In a statement to an AA correspondent on the matter, ASER Technology Deputy General Manager Aslı Murat noted that they signed one of the region’s most important anti-drone contracts with the relevant authorities in Saudi Arabia. Murat stated, “the anti-drone system to be developed together will include innovative technologies over the current GHOST version and will be offered to the global market. Saudi Arabia is investing heavily in advanced technology under the direction of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. We’d like to thank them for selecting ASER Technology during this process.”
GHOST is an anti-drone system meant to protect airports, military units and headquarters, police stations, prisons, critical areas, and meetings from modern threats such as unmanned aerial vehicles. The GHOST Air Security Shield, which will be employed by Saudi Arabia to protect against drone attacks by the Iranian-backed Yemen Houthis, was designed as a DSP-controlled, DDS-based, embedded system design that will detect drones and automatically neutralize RF control bands.
GHOST, which includes a radar system capable of 360-degree situational detection, identification, and classification, can identify fixed-wing small UAVs from a distance of 6 kilometers, pedestrians from a distance of 11 kilometers, helicopters from a distance of 19 kilometers, vehicles from a distance of 22 kilometers, and tanks from a distance of 33 kilometers. The radar system integrated into the RIH class not only recognizes rotary and fixed wings, but it also separates the drone from birds and recognizes that the drone is a threat, and it can do so automatically and instantaneously. The system, which can operate continuously day and night, 24/7, jams the communication between the RF transceiver systems of the detected drones and neutralizes them.