Leonidas: A Mobile Microwave Counter Drone System
A mobile weapons system capable of traveling autonomously to the battlefield and shooting down swarms of hostile drones using beams of microwave energy is being developed.
Los Angeles-based defense technology company Epirus and a subsidiary of global defense contractor General Dynamics have teamed up to create the Leonidas Autonomous Robotic vehicle (Leonidas AR), a mobile counter-UAS system.
- Integrates Epirus’s Leonidas’s high-power microwave (HPM) counter-drone platform
- General Dynamics Land Systems’ Tracked Robot 10-ton (TRX) unmanned ground vehicle
A mobile weapons system, capable of traveling autonomously to the battlefield and shooting down swarms of hostile drones using beams of microwave energy might seem like the stuff of science fiction, but it could be showing up soon in war zones across the world.
The Leonidas AR is designed to defeat drone swarms for the U.S.
Author's summary: Epirus and General Dynamics unveil Leonidas AR.