EOS
New laser has a 150 kW beam and wants to revolutionize how drones are fought for large -scale conflicts. It is cheap and easy to implement.
“The attack by drone swarms is one of the most dangerous evolutions in modern conflicts,” says the Australian technology company Electro Optic Systems (EOS). “For every million dollars spent on attacking someone, defenders can spend 50 times more to prevent them. Unless defenses are carefully conceived, the economy of conflict can lead to bankruptcy before causing damage,” he says to
It is with this problem in mind that the company presents the laser this week “Apollo” with a 150 kW beam and capacity to destroy 20 to 50 drones per minute.
“UAS (unmanned aerial systems) now use contracted such as rapid maneuvers, rotation, thermal insulation and reflecting coatings – tactics that make swarms large more difficult to track and combat. Apollo evolved over more than a decade To face this challenge, offering precision combat, high levels of power and continuous firing capacity to defeat these increasingly complex threats, ”reads the company’s.
With one high rate of variation e continuous feeding, Apollo can be implemented in less than two hours, which makes it fit for emergency situations.
According to EOS, high energy lasers They offer a solution by providing precise and low -cost attacks on drones. And at low cost, the company means unhappy compared to the currently in force devices.
Unlike missiles that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, a laser shooting is limited only to energy cost. In addition, the device is built to Integrate with NATO Command and Control Systems (C2) and Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS).
“Drones have fundamentally changed the war,” says EOS. “Apollo was conceived from scratch to contradict these threats to light speed. What we do next is what matters most. ”
