Leidos Australia and its Land 156 project partners have demonstrated a mission-ready counter-drone capability for the Australian Defence Force, taking down drones kinetically and non-kinetically.
The Exercise Southern Arrow 25 live-fire event confirmed the effectiveness and successful integration of several systems to detect, track and neutralise small Group 1 and Group 2 drones in the field.
Leidos Australia validated and integrated core technologies, bringing together advanced sensors, effectors and command and control capabilities. Australian technologies included the Acacia Systems’ Cortex command-and-control system, EOS Defence Systems’ effector suite and Department 13’s sensor system, alongside Echodyne’s MESA radars and L3 Harris’ VAMPIRE laser-guided rocket system for detection, tracking, identification and defeat of small drones.
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