Teledyne FLIR's Cerberus XL is planned to be part of the counter-unmanned aerial solution that will be tested at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 2025. (Teledyne FLIR)
A version of the Cortex Typhon counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UASs) capability that is operating in Ukraine is being tailored for a US customer, Janes has learnt.
The capability – designated Typhon – was delivered to Ukraine in 2023, and now the US will test a domestic variant at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in July 2025 for the Maneuver and Fires Integrated Experiment (MFIX), Scott Estes, business development director for US at Teledyne FLIR told Janes in September.
Cerberus XL – on display for the first time at Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual conference on 15 October – is the surveillance system that was delivered with the Ukrainian system, he said. The company is still in conversations with Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace, which provided the weapon station, to determine the final configuration of the solution.
For the Ukrainian contract, instead of one remote weapon system (RWS) on the back of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) Dingo 2 all-protected carrier vehicles, Kongsberg will integrate “two to three” of the RWS-Dingo 2 configurations together for a C-UAS solution, a representative from Kongsberg told Janes in 2023.
The kinetic effector and weapon station could be altered for a US customer, said Estes. For example, the US has several systems integrated with the Commonly Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS).
Cerberus XL weighs about 4,200 lb and is about 175 inch in length with a width of 87 inch and height of 3 m fixed mast, according to a specification sheet reviewed by Janes
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