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UNIFY.C2 adds passive acoustic sensing to a multi-sensor drone-detection stack

UNIFY.C2 and Squarehead Technology announced an integration that adds passive acoustic drone detection to a command-and-control platform already designed to combine RF, radar, electro-optical, Remote ID and other airspace data. The companies position the acoustic layer for environments where RF-only detection can be weak or congested.

No single sensor works equally well against every small aircraft and environment. Passive acoustics can add a different failure mode and help correlate tracks when RF emissions are absent or hard to separate from background traffic.

Detection range and classification accuracy are environment-dependent. Critical-infrastructure and public-safety users should test false alarms, wind and traffic noise, localization accuracy and sensor-fusion behavior at the actual site before treating the added channel as reliable coverage.