Counter Piracy
There are no cell phone towers at sea. Pirates use a variety of means to communicate; radio and Sat Phones.
One of their key requirements is to find out “what is in the target vessel; how valuable is it?” The only way they can do that quickly is to call their contacts in Europe. Radios can’t be used for this. So, before every attack, there is always a Sat Phone call to Europe to get information on the vessel’s cargo before they decide to attack. FlyingFish™ was the key tool used to stop pirates off the coast of East Africa by locating these calls in the middle of the ocean.
A NATO Commander made the comment, “before we had FlyingFish™, the pirates would pick up our radars hundreds of miles away and know we were looking for them; they would appear as innocent fishermen. Now, we never turn the radar on anymore. We just look for Sat Phone signals without AIS, and they go up and use the EO/IR sensor.”
Small, lightweight, and proven airborne SIGINT system to replace FlyingFish™
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Fully DO-160 airborne qualified
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Monitors Thuraya, ISAT Pro and Iridium networks
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Includes software to seamless integration with tactical mission systems
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Non-ITAR
Latest News
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03/08/2024
Horizon Technologies to Showcase its Cutting-Edge Sat Phone SIGINT Solutions at the Security and Policing Show in Farnborough
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10/19/2023
Horizon Technologies is awarded £1.2 Million Grant from the UK Space Agency for the Amber™ Phoenix Mission
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06/13/2023
Horizon Technologies is awarded a GBP Six-Figure Grant from Innovate UK for Development of the BlackFishX (BFX) Miniature SIGINT Payload
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05/18/2023
BlackFish Introduction Worskshop at Villa Wolkonsky in Rome
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03/13/2023
Airborne Technologies has completed integration Horizon Technologies’ BlackFish payloads into the company’s Airborne Linx mission management system
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11/29/2022
John Beckner on the Andrew Pierce Show together with Lembit Optik on GB News to discuss Horizon Technologies’ upcoming first Amber™ launch
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11/28/2022
John Beckner was Honored to Speak at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London
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11/18/2022
Channel migrant smugglers to be tracked from space as Britain gets go-ahead to launch satellites
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10/13/2022
So excited that Amber-1 has arrived for integration
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09/30/2022
Horizon Technologies will be Exhibiting at the Farnborough International Airshow in the UK 18-22 July 2022
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