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Description

Drones can be deployed to deliver transponders across the battlefield before military personnel enter the operational area, establishing a 5G-enabled communications network. The system provides a live video feed and transmits messages and warnings, including Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) landmine location information, to all military personnel’s helmets, as well as to military vehicles, aircraft, and vessels involved in the operation.

This invention relates to combat and military operations. In particular, it relates to a drone-deployed terrestrial visual detection and tracking system designed to coordinate ground troops, equipment, and military vehicles. The invention also concerns a system that enables the movement of personnel and assets across terrain, together with changes in their geographical locations, to be tracked and visually monitored in real time.

The system comprises:

• One or more remotely controlled drones.
• A plurality of airborne transceivers adapted to be released by one or more drones while in flight.
• Transceivers dispersed across an operational area on the ground.
• Personnel transceivers carried or worn by personnel operating on the ground.
• Equipment and vehicular transceivers attached to or installed within ground-based equipment and vehicles.
• A live video feed transmitted from drones to a computer or server located at the command post. This central computer is adapted to receive and process wireless location information from personnel, airborne, equipment, and vehicular transceivers.
• A central processing system that analyses the location information and provides a seamless, real-time visual display showing the relative positions of personnel, vehicles, and equipment, with location changes continuously tracked and monitored.
• GPR-based identification and location data for landmines, transmitted from drones back to command posts and distributed to military personnel’s helmets, vehicles, aircraft, and vessels involved in the operation.

The system is intended to enhance battlefield awareness, improve operational coordination, and provide timely warnings of potential hazards through an integrated network of drones, transceivers, and command-and-control systems.