Thor Dynamics has been invited to the United States Army’s Defense in Depth Experiment (DiDEX) 25. Organised by the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) C5ISR Center, DiDEX will take place later this year in Texas.
The event is a field experiment where the Army will validate technologies designed to counter growing threats, such as those from drones.
Thor Dymanics’ portable Laser Armor™ high-performance laser system is engineered to fire all day and has the capability to neutralise swarms of any size.
The company notes the downing of two police Black Hawk helicopters in Colombia by simple drones, which it says is “a stark confirmation that cheap, accessible technology can now defeat multi-million-dollar assets”.
“Russia is now on track to build 6,000 Shahed-style attack drones annually,” the company continues. “China’s industrial base has the capacity to produce over 200,000 small drones per month. Their strategy is to create disposable air forces that attack in swarms, exhausting any defence that relies on a finite supply of missiles and ammunition. This creates a dangerous cost and logistical asymmetry designed to make our defences mathematically obsolete.”
Thor Dynamics says the DiDEX invitation confirms that the Army is actively seeking a solution to this specific challenge.
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