Drones

New American Anti-Drone Gun

The US continues to search the best, most efficient platform to intercept drones entering its territory and protect its border.

Engineers at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey successfully concluded a demonstration of its new anti-UAV platform recently by blowing a pair of airborne drones clean out of the sky from a kilometer away. However, unlike other anti-drone weapons like the Phalanx or C-RAM systems which throw walls of hot, explosive lead at incoming threats; or the laser-based HEL-MD, this new weapon takes a more old-school approach: very large bullets.

The as-of-yet unnamed weapon has been temporarily dubbed the EAPS ARDEC gun. It employs a pair of 50mm Bushmaster cannons mounted atop a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT). These batteries fire 10-round bursts of unpowered steel projectiles wrapped in a tantalum-tungsten alloy liner that shred inbound UAVs, mortars and rockets.