AI-Powered Weaponry in Africa

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Got an Xbox controller. Oh, there there's our target, right there.

[00:00:05]You lift this up and then the laser will now shoot the drones that it tracks using software. Very very impressive.

[00:00:15]>> [music] >> So here at AUVSI there's three stools.

[00:00:19]There's the army, there's academia who we talked to and now there's the vendors i.e. private industry who are here to show the drones, to show the AI, to show the cutting edge technology of how it can be adapted for military use.

[00:00:34]Hi, what are we looking at here? Uh you're looking at the Altus 700 Mike. It is a lethality package with a LWER gimbal on the front.

[00:00:43]>> So you can take pictures and blow it up.

[00:00:45]That's correct. Our systems have autonomy on board to allow for multiple systems to be flown at once. But what happens if there isn't a human pulling the trigger and they just it's just machines going after machines? Well, that's where you make sure that you develop the right safeguards and implementations on the system side to prohibit any off-nominal behavior that is not desired by the employers of the system in our case i.e. military.

[00:01:15]What makes you guys excited about this as a as a product? It will fly despite getting jammed.

[00:01:22]All right, wow.

[00:01:23]>> that pulsar you can go and find that jammer. The pulsar finds the radio frequency of the jammer? Uh yeah, anywhere between 900 and 6,000 MHz. All right, wow. So it detects Wi-Fi, cell phones, jammers, radios, all of that.

[00:01:37]So Lockheed Martin, what are you working on that's going to keep you relevant in this rapidly changing market? It's partner technology that's integrated into Lockheed Martin's battle management system for identifying that RF signal between the drone operator and the drone and it has mitigation or defense capability to then interrupt that signal, take over the drone. So, hold on. You can hack the other and the enemy's drone mid midflight. Midflight.

[00:02:06]>> Take it over and then do something else with it. You could even send it back to the operator. We can walk over to another way to bring that drone down. In this top sensor, that is the output window for a 3 6 8 or higher power kilowatt laser to just bring that system down out of the sky.

[00:02:23]>> This is a drone killing laser.

[00:02:26]That's right.

[00:02:28]>> [laughter] >> So, that's the future.

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