When it comes to taking down drones, there are many ways that one can go about it. One of those ways involves the use of lasers which we have seen being deployed on ships, so the question is, how do drones protect themselves from lasers? Or are lasers going to be the kryptonite of drones?A company by the name of Adsys Controls in California think that they might have found the solution in the form of an anti-laser system. Basically the idea is to disrupt the lasers that are aimed at the drone, meaning that these lasers should technically never be able to lock onto the drone, thus preventing it from being shot down.
According to the New Scientist, “Helios can detect an incoming laser beam and identify its key characteristics, such as power, wavelength, pulse frequency and its source. Helios then interferes with the beam control – possibly by firing back a low-power laser of its own – so the attacking laser cannot fix on the target.”
Adsys’ CEO Brian Goldberg is boasting that their solution is a permanent form of protection, meaning that it isn’t a one-off method for fending off lasers. Naturally Goldberg did not go into detail as to how the system worked, but as New Scientist speculates, it could be in the form of its own laser system.
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