Canens

The Roark Canens C-UAS device is designed specifically for the disruption of UAV’s, UGV’s and USV’s that use optical cable communication links. Whilst traditional EW devices are futile against optical cable communications, the Roark Canens has proven highly effective in both detecting and countering these new gen threats.

The Roark Canens uses our Hyperspectral and FLIR optics mounted both on the Canens device itself as well as feeds from our Mjolnir persistent imaging UAV’s to detect “in-use” optical cables, identifiable from the HSI output that is invisible to the human eye and many IR sensors.

The Roark Canens then deploys a steerable and adjustable electrohydraulic shockwave to massively increase interferometric noise around the optical cable. The output is the full disruption of the communication channel which ultimately results in the loss of the device through the disconnection between the device and the FPV controller.

The Roark Canens is built around thousands of electrohydraulic transducers that are mounted concentrically on a spherical basin with adjustable connections to individual transducers. Each transducer consists of thousands of 3D printed titanium microelectrodes embedded in epoxy with a tip diameter of 0.5mm. The transducers are arranged in concentric rings and sub-divided in to sectors. Changing the connections of individual transducers provides an axisymmetric or non-axisymmetric choice in the focused pressure field produced by the transducer array, this enables increasing or decreasing the beam width in a specific direction.

Whilst the Roark Canens is currently a standalone C-UAS module we are in late stage manufacturing of a smaller, personal version to be deployed with traditional forces in theater.