Blighter bids to Thai down new radar contracts in Bangkok
Defense & Security 2025 is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) biennial defence and security event (10-13 November 2025 at the IMPACT Exhibition & Convention Centre, Bangkok).
The event attracts more than 25,000 participants from over 40 countries including the regions' highest-ranking officials from the Army, Navy, and Air Forces as well as Ministries of Defence, Chiefs of Police, Coast Guar and other government bodies.
James Long, CEO at Blighter, says: “We are continuing to win new overseas border surveillance and coastal security contracts in Asia for our ITAR free radar products. Governments in the region face the growing challenge of securing land and coastal borders from traffickers, pirates, illegal immigration and other security threats. They are looking to Blighter and our field proven near zero maintenance solution that works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in all weather conditions, including fog.”
Blighter’s non-rotating, solid-state, low SWaP (size, weight and power) electronic scanning radars provide 360-degrees of uninterrupted rapid surveillance over a wide area detecting moving vehicles/vessels, persons (including ‘crawlers’) and near ground aerial threats at ranges of up to 32 km. The radars’ compact and modular design enables rapid deployment on towers and vehicles, and as dismounted portable systems on tripods.
Blighter says its most recent contract wins in the region came from a southeast Asian military customer that has installed B400 radars onto army vehicles for rapid deployment to border infiltration hotspots. More than 100 of its radar units have also been guarding the 250km Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) for over a decade.
Blighter operates through a network of partners across the region and supports the local assembly of certain products to enable indigenous manufacture. Blighter is represented in Thailand by Defentec Ltd. a subsidiary company of Hollywood International Ltd. Defentec is based in Rajtawee, Bangkok.
“We are looking forward to meeting with partners and prospective customers at Defense & Security to showcase our robust and resilient smart radars and AI-assisted software,” says Long.
Blighter radars are trusted by the UK Ministry of Defence for forward operating base (FOB) protection, the South Korean Army for border surveillance along the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), by the United States Air Force for drone detection, by Five Eyes/NATO customers for deployment on their mobile surveillance and armoured vehicles, and the UK’s major airports for perimeter protection.