Building a Defence Against Drones
SDTH Winner (3 Month Challenge) Vaikesh Manimaran, Maelstrom
Key Points:
Real-time defensive systems force hard trade-offs between speed, accuracy, cost, and reliability - there's no perfect solution, only chosen compromises
Working directly with operators and defence experts surfaces problems and constraints that pure lab development would never reveal
If the prize funding is being used to accelerate MAELSTROM's development beyond the hackathon prototype
The skinny
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