Made by L3Harris Technologies, the system can be quickly installed on different types of vehicles.
A counterdrone weapon that the Pentagon recently said it would send to Ukraine is a compact combination of three systems already used by the U.S. Army: a jammer, an infrared camera, and a rocket launcher, executives said.
L3Harris Technologies showed off the system, called VAMPIRE, at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting in Washington.
“We did this to address some open operational needs, that some of our sensitive customers kind of had out there in terms of a real solution to take care of real threats, in a kinetic way that guarantees if you can see it that you at least [can] take care of the problem,” said Luke Savoie, president of L3Harris’ Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance business. READ MORE