HyperSpike

HyperSpike is a brand name for acoustic products manufactured by Ultra Electronics – Undersea Sensor Systems Inc. (USSI), in Columbia City, Indiana.

HyperSpike is composed of a line of acoustic hailing devices that feature integrated electronics with a flat frequency response curve.

[citation needed] In 2008, Wattre and Ultra Electronics – USSI signed a teaming agreement for the design and manufacture of an array of acoustic hailing devices.

[3] HyperSpike products currently hold the Guinness Book of World Records for loudest electro-acoustic projection device at 182.2 dB.

[5][6] Each is sealed against the environment and has been designed to operate in extreme environmental conditions including hot, cold, blowing dust, freezing rain, and torrential downpours.

In addition, these units can be equipped with advanced software analytics capable of detecting human or machine forms at distances in excess of 1000 meters.

Examples of integrable sensors include:[8] Directional HyperSpike models are in service with various domestic and international and private, law enforcement, and military users.

HyperSpike products (from left to right). The HS-24, the HS-16 and an MA-2
An omni-directional HyperSpike MA-1 AHD on a concrete pad in Afghanistan. The MA-1 AHD is used by the US Army as the early warning component of the Counter Rocket, Artillery, & Mortar (C-RAM) system. Over 200 units have been fielded. [ citation needed ]
The HyperSpike HS-18 RAHD with a daylight camera mounted in the OptiPort and illuminator mounted externally
A HS-16 in use after a Lakers game in Los Angeles