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Re:Ukraine's Autonomous Killer Drones Defeat Electronic Warfare by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @08:47AM (#44169412)
There's a few, but they're large, expensive, require a lot of electricity and have limited range; there's the Silent Hunter [0] which is 30-100 kilowatts max power but which has a range of up to 4 kilometers. Raytheon has a 10 kilowatt palletized version that can go on a truck bed [1]; I can't find any numbers but it's listed as short-range, so I presume it's only effective at distances of less than 1 km, probably only tens or hundreds of meters. Plus they need to detect the drones first, but there's multiple ways to do that. It likely needs a network of detectors though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hunter_(laser_weapon)

[1] https://www.rtx.com/raytheon/what-we-do/integrated-air-and-m...

Re:Ukraine's Autonomous Killer Drones Defeat Electronic Warfare by tguvot on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:30PM (#44171816)
Israel published last week that it made a trial run of the iron beam (10km range or so) during conflict with hezbollai. It had 40 intercepts and full operational deployment is scheduled for this year
Re:Ukraine's Autonomous Killer Drones Defeat Electronic Warfare by throwaway422432 on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @08:34PM (#44176193)
EOS (Aust) have a 50-100kW system, 4 km range.

https://eos-aus.com/defence/high-energy-laser-weapon/

What they are good at is target tracking, having started out in satellite communication.

Their tracking system paired with a 30mm Bushmaster cannon and proximity ammo is another solution, and there are apparently 160 of them heading for Ukraine to be mounted on M113 and Kozak vehicles.

https://eos-aus.com/defence/counter-drone-systems/slinger/