Airspace security, made measurable
Know what's in your airspace
Millimeter-wave radar engineered to detect, track, and classify the small drones other systems miss — from $50 quadcopters to nano-class threats.
Deployment-ready
- Airports
- Critical Infrastructure
- Defense
The technology
Detection that doesn't miss what other systems can't see.
Most counter-UAS systems were built for the threats of a decade ago. We rebuilt the stack from first principles — sensors, fusion, and classification — for the small, low-signature drones now showing up at airports, substations, and forward bases.
DroneTector — a sensor stack purpose-built for small UAS.
Deployed standalone at a single site or networked across a distributed perimeter. Scalable from a single tower to a multi-site detection grid, with onboard compute for low-latency detection in real-world environments.
- Sensors
- Mm-wave · Camera · Acoustic
- Targets
- Nano · Micro UAS
- Deployment
- Standalone or mesh
- Operating
- All-weather, 24/7
- Sensor
Millimeter-wave radar
Purpose-built millimeter-wave radar arrays tuned for the radar cross-section of nano and micro UAS — not automotive modules bolted onto a pan-tilt unit.
- Fusion
Distributed sensor mesh
Radar, camera, and acoustic arrays operate as a single network. Each modality covers the others' blind spots and produces one unified airspace picture.
- Classification
Edge-deployed real-time classification
Classification runs on-device at the sensor, distinguishing drones from birds, vehicles, and weather in real time — collapsing false-positive rates that desensitize operators, with no round-trip to the cloud.
Where Milliray deploys
Three markets. The same hard problem.
- Airports
Stop the next Gatwick.
A single small drone can close runways and cost airlines millions. Conventional radar wasn't designed to see them.
- Perimeter and approach-path coverage
- Integrates with existing tower systems
- Built for false-positive-sensitive ops
- Critical Infrastructure
Protect the grid, the plant, the pipeline.
Substations, refineries, water treatment, and data centers are the highest-value soft targets in the country. Drone intrusions are now routine.
- All-weather, low-altitude detection
- Distributed mesh for sprawling sites
- Tamper-resistant edge hardware
- Defense
Field-grade radar for forward operating sites.
Front-line teams need cost-aligned detection for the new asymmetric threat: $50 quadcopters and improvised weaponized UAS.
- Rapid-deploy and vehicle-mounted
- Designed for cluttered RF environments
- Built and tested with UK MoD partners
Who's building it
A PhD-heavy team on a PhD-hard problem.
Years of radar physics, signal processing, and applied ML — combined with field experience built alongside UK MoD, NATO, and the Royal Academy of Engineering.
CEO
Dr Matthew Moore
PhD, University of St Andrews. Millimeter-wave radar and RF engineering. Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow.
CTO
Dr Thomas Doherty
DPhil, University of Oxford. A decade in optical and laser technologies. Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow.
COO
Dr Jordina Frances de Mas
PhD, University of St Andrews. Automated reasoning, machine learning, and algorithmic optimization.
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Responsible for countering drone threats?
We work with airports, critical infrastructure, defense operators, venues, and VIP protection teams. Send a note — we'll get back the same week.
