New RF C-UAS Technology for Mobile & Fixed-Site Operations

AeroVironment, Inc. (AV) is launching Titan 4, the next-generation of its counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS) technology, featuring a smaller, lighter, and more powerful design.

Titan 4 is a highly extensible radio frequency (RF)-based solution designed to detect and defeat Group 1 and 2 drone threats. Portable and mission-adaptable, it supports mobile, dismounted, or fixed-site use—and can deploy in under five minutes to identify and neutralize threats, creating a protective dome around personnel and infrastructure.

Titan 4 is 17% lighter and 73% smaller than its dual-chassis predecessor, now integrated into a single compact chassis. It offers nearly 250% more transmit power with 540W of total output over six RF bands to address both current and emerging threats. For enhanced airspace awareness, AV has integrated its Titan-SV system within Titan 4 to provide operators with AI/ML-backed passive, long-range precision threat detection.

Titan 4 is the flagship solution in AV’s Titan C-UASTM suite of autonomous RF counter-drone systems. In addition to Titan 4 and Titan-SV, AV is expanding this suite of solutions with technologies spanning from larger, fixed-site configurations to small, interoperable plug-and-play sensors:

• Titan-MS: An AI-powered, multi-sensor technology that detects, identifies, tracks, defeats, and reports on unmanned system threats. As the largest, most powerful solution in the Titan family, Titan-MS (Multi-Sensor) is a multi-mission, multi-threat capability suitable for fixed-site installations in air, sea, and land domains.
• Titan-EO/IR: A portable, multi-sensor platform to detect, identify, track, and defeat UAS threats. Leveraging the repeatable performance of Titan’s RF capabilities along with agile Middle Wavelength Infrared (MWIR) sensors, Titan-EO/IR integrates advanced sensor arrays into a unified interface, delivering full-spectrum airspace awareness.
• Titan-SV LOB: A fixed-site or vehicle-mounted small-UAS (sUAS) detection and tracking solution that provides operators with the same long-range, 360° coverage of Titan-SV along with precise azimuth and elevation for all sUAS threats. For standard protocol sUAS, Titan-SV LOB (Line of Bearing) provides enhanced threat awareness with full 3D tracking.
• Titan-SV MOSA/SOSA: The next generation of Titan-SV in development, putting the passive threat detection power of Titan-SV on an open-architecture sensor card for maximum interoperability on a wide variety of multi-mission systems and open standard chassis. Using Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) and Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) frameworks, Titan-SV SOSA/MOSA promotes interoperability, scalability, and rapid modernization across defense platforms.

Trace Stevenson, President of AV’s Autonomous Systems Segment, commented, “With over a thousand units in the field and hundreds of thousands of operational hours, our team has taken lessons learned from active deployments in rapidly evolving threat landscapes to develop the next era of RF C-UAS superiority. Smaller, lighter and more powerful, Titan 4 is poised to better respond to both individual threats and drone swarms in the harshest environments–using adaptive, autonomous, escalating countermeasures to protect our warfighters, allies, and infrastructure and ensure successful military operations.”

Jimmy Jenkins, Executive Vice President of AV’s Precision Strike and Defense Systems Group, added, “From our fixed-site capabilities to our plug-in integrations, the Titan family of RF C-UAS solutions is a force multiplier for our warfighters. With a proven track record across Titan and Titan-SV deployments, we’re proud to roll out Titan 4 and a full family of Titan solutions to meet the critical multi-mission needs of our customers. We’re moving these innovations from prototype to full-scale production to quickly deliver our U.S.-made and manufactured units into the hands of warfighters who are protecting us at home and abroad.”