Months of Preparation, Now Put Into Practice
The joint effort follows four months of preparation and trust-building. After a one-month operation to ship the radar from Japan, the system was installed on the roof of DronePort Tower. Earlier this week, a delegation of seven Toshiba engineers and sales experts arrived to start the first tests together with ZSE. The emphasis is on pushing both technologies in real-life conditions, identifying complementarities, and evaluating opportunities for deeper collaboration.
From Test Campaign to TIE 2025
The radar will remain at DronePort until the end of September. A second Toshiba team will then return to participate in the Belgian TIE 2025 exercise, coordinated by Agoria and the Counter-UAS Working Group. This week-long event will bring together around 15 companies for integrated demonstrations, red-versus-blue drone scenarios, and structured discussions on interoperability. Toshiba’s radar and ZSE’s RF system will play a central role in creating an integrated air picture, showcasing how multiple sensor layers can combine into a stronger and more resilient detection capability.
Opportunities for All Partners
For ZSE, the test period is a chance to validate how radar complements their radio frequency detection, extending coverage to drones that do not rely on radio signals and making the detection network more watertight. Toshiba benefits by gathering valuable data from a European environment, testing scenarios that cannot be replicated in Japan, and demonstrating its radar technology to the European counter-drone community. For DronePort, hosting these trials reinforces its ambition to become Europe’s epicenter for counter-UAS testing, offering companies a real-world environment to challenge and strengthen each other’s solutions.
Building the Future of Airspace Security
By working side by side in this test period, ZSE and Toshiba are not only validating their systems, but also laying the foundations for future cooperation. Their joint work at DronePort marks an important step toward layered, integrated airspace protection that will be essential to face the evolving challenges of unmanned flight.
Learn more about DronePort’s ambitions for creating a Counter-UAS Test Center here: DronePort launches national counter-drone testing and expertise centre
