Specialized Portable Electromagnetic Attack Radiator (SPEAR)

Innovation in a Counter UAS Capability

SPEAR provides a portable, compact, and deployable High Power Electromagnetic (HPEM) source as a directed energy weapon against individual and swarm drone threats. The innovative system was designed as an intentional, single-pulse to repetition rate, high-power electromagnetic radiator. Due to its portable size, low weight, low power requirements, and effectivity, SPEAR provides Counter small Unmanned Aircraft System (C-sUAS) capabilities to ground vehicles, fixed platforms, and field troops.

Key Design Advantages

• High effectivity; low SWaP
• Low-cost system with ~1M magazine depth with low cost per shot; minimal logistics support needed
• Ultrawide bandwidth permits engagement of targets without prior knowledge of specific vulnerabilities
• Ability to disrupt and destroy targets with both front-and-back-door coupling
• Counter heterogeneous sUAS swarms simultaneously without prior knowledge of threat type
• Defeat ranges beyond distances associated with Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) / Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition (RSTA) type UAS swarm attack distances
• System electromagnetically couples with heterogeneous target systems regardless of size
• Independent of threat orientation due to simultaneous horizontal and vertical polarization
• Rapid deployment; instantaneous effectivity
• Easily transportable, set-up/power-up in seconds to minutes

Why SPEAR?

• Effectivity on vulnerable targets is virtually instantaneous
• Wide bandwidth permits engagement of targets without prior knowledge of specific vulnerabilities
• Able to counter multiple types/platforms of swarm sUAS simultaneously
• Ability to disrupt and destroy targets with both front-and-back-door coupling
• Effective at countering ISR / RSTA type UAS threats at ranges well beyond those associated with attacking sUAS swarms
• Innovative technologies have reduced system SWaP supporting integration on vehicle playforms, small pull-behind trailers, or for use by dismounted troops
• Contributes critical niche advantages to a layered defense approach