Meet THOR: AFRL’s Counter-Drone that Tracks and Disables Drone Swarm

The Department of Defense is exploring options to protect our warfighters further. Enter THOR, stage right. Tactical, High-power, Operational Responder (THOR), is a high-power microwave counter-drone weapon that the Air Force Research Lab has demonstrated for effective use against realistic targets. Watch this video to see how THOR tracks and turns off entire drone swarms.

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00:00:08 [Music] as the threats from unmanned aerial system swarms evolve the Department of Defense is exploring options to further protect our war Fighters tactical high power operational responder known as Thor is a high power microwave counter drone weapon that the Air Force research lab has demonstrated for Effectiveness against realistic targets numerous

00:00:42 drones were flown to simulate a swarm attack and using its wide beam high peak powers and fast moving gimbal Thor tracked and disabled the entire swarm the results are a promising step in protecting War fighters from the Potential Threat of drone attacks adding to the suite of existing installation Force protection tools afrl is also using Thor success to create a new

00:01:05 prototype called Moler which includes key enhancements to making the system even faster lighter and more [Music] capable