The Anti-Drone Arms Race: Inside the Fight to Protect the World's Skies

On the top floor of a squat Singapore industrial estate, wedged between a railway depot and water reclamation plant, is a young security firm that's shooting for the stars. Well, shooting for anything beneath the stars that shouldn't be there, technically speaking. TRD is one of the world's leading purveyors of anti-drone technology--a burgeoning industry worth some $1.1 billion last year and projected to grow to $7.4 billion by 2032. "Anti-drone is the hot topic right now," says TRD CEO Sam Ong, a former officer in the Singapore Armour Corps, where he specialized in tank technology. "Unmanned warfare is taking center stage, especially in the Ukraine war."