DroneTector: high-resolution radars to detect small drones
We build sensors to detect the most challenging drones.
Details
- External ID
- 97990
- Source
- YC
- Company
- Milliray
- Product
- DroneTector: high-resolution radars to detect small drones
- Website domain
- milliray.com
- Launched
- Feb. 19, 2026
- Cohort
- Winter 2026
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.22093023255813954
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- autonomous robotics, drones, and sensor hardware
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- radar sensors for drone detection
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Detecting micro-drones requires custom high-frequency radar hardware, specialized antenna arrays, and complex Doppler radar signal processing algorithms to distinguish drones from birds and clutter.
What it would actually take: This system requires custom millimeter-wave radar RF hardware, phased-array antenna design, high-speed FPGA digital signal processing, and micro-Doppler signature classification algorithms. It requires radar systems engineers, RF hardware specialists, and extensive physical testing against drone targets in various weather conditions.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #188 of 253 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 104 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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