Yesterday, I wrote about the U.S. Army setting up a drone school to help trainees familiarize themselves with drones, including identification and reporting of these. While those are important skills for today’s warfighters, they also need tools to counter hostile drones, apart from attempting to shoot them down with their weapons.

An option is to jam the drones so they lose contact from their operators and safely bring them down, or for others, try the old way of casting a net to catch these. For soldiers, jamming is a quick option so they can focus on the mission ahead. With that, MyDefence, a company based in Denmark, offer a solution, a wearable Counter UAS Jammer called the PITBULL.

According to MyDefence, the PITBULL can protect dismounted soldiers from reconnaissance and weapons delivery drones. Since it is wearable as it has small form factor, the PITBULL can be worn using MOLLE webbing that soldiers use. Weighing less than 1kg (775g) it can work with MyDefence product, the Wingman series for special operations units for a complete drone detection and threat mitigation.

On its own, PITBULL can work up to a distance of 1,000 meters with its directional antennas. It can be operated manually or on automatic mode, covering the 2.4GHz, 5.8GHz and GNSS frequency bands. MyDefence plans on releasing an external active antenna to cover additional frequencies. The PITBULL has a standby time of 20 hours and with continuous jamming it can last for two hours.

Using PITBULL does require little to no training to operate as well as it can be easily updated to improve performance as it a software-based jammer. That means software updates can further refine its capabilities and make it more versatile in countering drones.