MissionRobo career roadmap
Counter-UAS Engineer
Sentrycs · DroneShield · Dedrone · Anduril Lattice · 14 weeks
01RF + radar foundations
required
RF basics with SDR
GNU Radio + an SDR (HackRF, USRP). The hands-on entry point.
2 resources
required
Radar fundamentals
Pulse vs CW, Doppler, range equation, RCS.
2 resources
recommended
EW basics
Jamming, spoofing, low-probability-of-intercept comms.
1 resources
02Detection
required
RF fingerprinting
How Sentrycs / DroneShield identify drones by their RF emissions.
1 resources
recommended
Acoustic detection
Microphone arrays + ML classifiers for drone rotor signatures.
1 resources
recommended
EO/IR camera detection
Visual + thermal detection of small UAS. Computer-vision-flavored.
1 resources
required
Radar for small UAS
Why small UAS are hard to detect on radar; why phased arrays change that.
1 resources
03Mitigation
recommended
Soft-kill: jamming + GPS spoofing
How DroneShield DroneGun works. The legal context matters.
1 resources
recommended
Hard-kill: kinetic + directed energy
Nets, projectiles, microwave, lasers.
1 resources
04System integration
required
C2 systems
Anduril Lattice as the reference. How sensors, decisions, and effects integrate.
1 resources
recommended
Vendor ecosystem
Who sells what, who integrates with whom. Map the landscape.
1 resources