RF Applications for Drone Modules & Drone Mitigation

Drone Applications – Why Now?

• The proliferation of low-power, high-bandwidth communication technologies has been a major catalyst for rapid growth in drone product development, supporting a wide range of applications across industrial, commercial, defense, agricultural, and consumer markets.

Drone Market Growth

• Overall market projections show growth at >10% CAGR.
  • Global drone market size expected to grow from $73B (2024) to $164B (2030)*
• The drone mitigation market, also known as the counter-UAS or anti-drone market, is expanding rapidly at a CAGR of more than 20%.
  • Drone mitigation market size $2.45B (2024) expected to grow to $10.6B (2030)*

Candidate Products

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Summary

• Mini-Circuits offers a wide choice of RF components for use in the interface between a drone antenna and its back-end transceiver.

Candidate Products

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Summary

• Mini-Circuits connectorized PA amplifiers have been used in both handheld and fixed counter-drone solutions. Customers have also turned to Mini-Circuits splitters/combiners, filters, VCOs, attenuators, and other RF components as building blocks for a wide range of counter-UAS system designs.

Candidate Products

Other Products

Summary

• For drone detection and tracking, Mini-Circuits surface-mount devices have been designed into receiver-side circuits for both fixed and mobile applications.