JERUSALEM — Esh-Tech, a new Israeli defense startup, plans to unveil its DroneLight laser defense system, aimed at countering unmanned aerial vehicles, at this year’s Eurosatory exposition, the company’s CEO told Breaking Defense.
“We are dealing with lasers. From day one, we tried to find a solution to counter UAVs, primarily small drones. We understood this would be the next threat,” Erex Riahi, the CEO of Esh-Tech, told Breaking Defense. “We saw that soft-kill RF [radio frequency] solutions were constantly evolving, and with the rise of fiber optics we understood we needed hard-kill capabilities, so we bet on hard-kill to destroy drones.”
As drones continue to dominate the modern battlefield, countries like Israel, involved in a multi-front war, are looking for counter-drone solutions.
DroneLight, the company noted in a statement, combines “high effectivity with very low energy consumption and a cost structure that is dramatically lower than traditional laser systems.”
The technology is based on a pulsed laser that uses only 4kw of energy.
