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How Drone-Based Radar Technology Assisted in Locating Missing Soldiers in Challenging Terrain

Integrated Systems
April 9, 2025

In extreme environments where traditional methods face significant limitations, drone-based radar solutions can provide critical insights. During the recent missing operation to locate missing American soldiers in Lithuania, specialized ground-penetrating radar (GPR) RadSys Zond Aero LF mounted on a drone played a crucial role. It enabled search teams to detect anomalies beneath the surface, such as disturbed ground, which helped pinpoint potential locations of the soldiers in the challenging terrain of peat bogs—an environment where mud and water typically complicate search efforts.

By imaging radio wave reflections from underground features, this technology helped guide the teams to the areas where the search was most likely to be successful. The RadSys Zond Aero LF GPR radar by SPH Engineering proved to be an invaluable tool, enhancing the search efforts and ultimately contributing to the finding of the soldiers.

This mission also highlighted remarkable international collaboration of different government and civil teams to enhance situational awareness and operational efficiency.

We're proud that our product was chosen for such an operation and demonstrated its real capabilities in a highly challenging environment.

The video of Times Archives illustrates how SPH Engineering's systems helped in extremely tough conditions when nothing else could help.

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