Wrap Technologies today announced the first known air-to-air interdiction using the company’s patented BolaWrap® entanglement system. The test was conducted in partnership with Vector on the Vector Hammer drone platform.
Wrap’s patent-pending MERLIN-Interdictor payload and patented non-lethal BolaWrap 150 Kevlar tether and anchor cassette successfully neutralized a moving aerial target mid-flight, achieving interdiction in live conditions.
“We believe the result is a new paradigm in defence — a platform-agnostic, non-lethal response layer that can be deployed anywhere humans or machines need to protect critical assets without causing collateral damage,” said the company in a press release. “For the first documented time, two aerial systems engaged one another using the company’s precision entanglement instead of explosives or electronic warfare, demonstrating the potential feasibility of safe, scalable, and sustainable aerial interdiction.
The test, performed in Salt Lake City, Utah, represents continued expansion of Wrap’s non-lethal ecosystem into defense and modern warfare: transforming its tested ground-based hands-on system into a high-speed aerial defense capability. We believe the results mark a pivotal step in bringing reliable, modern, and cost-effective CUAS options to real-world mission environments — from forward-deployed military operations to domestic to critical infrastructure defenve. In our view, the successful collaboration with Vector demonstrates the adaptability of the MERLIN payload to existing drone platforms and the potential for rapid deployment across both commercial and government sectors.”
“Our successful test with Wrap marks a breakthrough for non-lethal counter-UAS capabilities,” said Andy Yakulis, CEO and Co-Founder of Vector. “The Wrap system quickly integrated with our Hammer drone platform, and together we demonstrated an effective and scalable solution that can redefine how we think about CUAS-as-a-service in domestic defense and current front-line battlefield operations.”
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