For years, Nigerian naval ships went to sea with a basic problem: they could patrol, but they did not always know where to look.
A vessel could leave a port, disappear beyond the horizon, and become little more than a guess on a naval commander’s map. Patrol boats and helicopters were available, but without a clear picture of what was happening across Nigeria’s vast waters, the Navy often conducted what officials called “blind patrols.”
Falcon Eye was designed to change that.
The maritime surveillance system, developed by Israeli defence company RTCom Defense, began deployment along Nigeria’s coastline in 2015. By combining coastal radar, cameras, satellite feeds, automatic identification systems and an over-the-horizon radar capable of detecting vessels hundreds of kilometres offshore, it gave the Nigerian Navy something it had lacked: a continuous picture of its waters.
Originally published by TechCabal.