AirSight links three drone-detection reports in AirGuard Layer 1

By Priya Raman

AirSight has added a feature linking three drone-detection reports within its AirGuard platform, giving security teams a route from a suspect aircraft model to an individual flight replay. The release, called Analytics for RF Detections (Layer 1), connects reports covering drone models, individual drones and flights.

Layer 1 processes radio frequency (RF) detections, allowing users to move from a suspicious model into the relevant flight record without re-entering filters. That shortens the analytical sequence between identification and investigation, although AirSight has not quantified the time involved.

No release date, customer deployment count, independent performance result or regulatory approval accompanies the announcement. Layer 1 is a software analytics feature, and AirSight does not claim additional detection capacity, aviation certification or flight-test evidence.

What does this change for security teams?

It gives teams one analytical chain across the three report types. Instead of rebuilding filters for each record, a user can follow a suspect model to a specific replay and then review the surrounding detection history.

The company said the update "is designed to reduce the time security teams spend manually compiling detection data and help them identify patterns that may indicate recurring or suspicious drone activity." The statement describes an intended operational saving; AirSight supplied no measured reduction in analyst hours, false-alarm rate or incident-resolution time.

For buyers, the stated cost lever is staff time, not lower hardware or communications expenditure. AirSight has not announced pricing, staffing effects, integration requirements or the number of sites running the feature.

Layer 1 also changes the unit of analysis. A user can start with a drone model, narrow the search to an individual aircraft and finish with a replay and its associated flight data. The announcement does not state whether those links operate retrospectively or in real time.

Four new charts summarise detected activity:

• repeat offenders
• flight times
• drone-to-pilot distances
• maximum flight altitudes

Layer 1 also adds five flight-data fields:

• pilot location
• start location
• end location
• flight times
• breached alert zones

Together, these fields describe where the pilot and flight began and ended, the recorded duration and the alert zones crossed during the flight. AirSight provides no accuracy, latency or coverage figures for those data.

Teams can export results as a Portable Document Format (PDF) containing charts and filtered data tables. They can also download the information in comma-separated values (CSV) format. Neither format expands detection coverage; both package information already collected in AirGuard.

Evidence and deployment limits

The announcement identifies no regulator and provides no figures for false positives, detection range, sensor compatibility, network integration or integration with air traffic management. AirSight therefore offers a reporting advance, not evidence of a certified operational improvement.

Separate from the AirGuard release, Unmanned Airspace has published the Fall issue of its 2026 Global Counter-UAS Systems Directory. The publisher calls it the world's only comprehensive, continually updated directory of global counter-UAS (C-UAS) companies and systems.

The directory itemises more than 1,000 C-UAS products and services, with performance details and information on company sales and partnership arrangements. Unmanned Airspace updates the guide every month and divides it into specialist sub-sectors, including net-capture systems, missiles, intercept drones and detectors.

The guide presents a view of global technical capabilities and market positions for procurement and industry personnel. It is available in Word, PDF and Excel formats, and Unmanned Airspace readers qualify for a range of discounts.

Directory inquiries go to editor Philip Butterworth-Hayes at [email protected]. The announcement provides no product-level breakdown, sales figures, delivery records or methodology for the performance entries. Buyers must therefore check the publisher's "world's only" claim and its market-position comparisons against procurement data.

For security buyers, Layer 1's value will depend on evidence that faster analytics shortens real investigations. The directory's value will depend on whether monthly updates remain accurate as counter-UAS products, partnerships and technical claims change.