
Directed Energy Ordnance Neutralization | ZEUS® - Parsons …
RADBO is comprised of three primary components: the mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicle, interrogation arm assembly, and the Parsons-developed ZEUS® laser. Our 25+ years of experience in directed energy ordnance neutralization led to the development of ZEUS ® , which is the first ground based Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) system to ...
Air Force to Field MRAPs Fitted With Laser ... - Air Force Magazine
2022年2月11日 · The 18-ton vehicle has a robotic arm, with which it can investigate runway craters for unexploded ordnance, and a three-kilowatt Zeus III laser that can detonate “heavily cased” unexploded bombs from as far as 300 meters away.
U.S. Air Force Orders Directed Energy EOD Systems
2020年10月10日 · Air Force EOD personnel can operate the laser and robotic arm from the safety of the MRAP vehicle to rapidly clear multiple items of unexploded ordnance from airfields. The ZEUS laser can hit targets more than 300 meters away from the vehicle and is powerful enough to detonate small submunitions from cluster bombs, land mines, general purposed ...
Air Force to deliver vehicle that uses laser to clear bombs
2022年2月7日 · Known as the Recovery of Airbase Denied By Ordnance (RADBO), the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle uses a three-kilowatt Zeus III laser and a robotic arm. It weighs approximately 18 tons, and seats up to four crewmembers.
Air Force awards laser-armed RADBO contract to Parsons - Defense News
2020年9月25日 · WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has awarded a nearly $40 million contract to Parsons to produce ground vehicles that can clear mines or unexploded ordnance from airfields — using a laser. The...
US Army installing 15 MRAPs with IED blasting lasers
2015年7月7日 · Fifteen Cougar MRAP (Mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles) are being fitted with robotic arms and a 3-kilowatt laser, which the user aims and fires using a PlayStation 4-like controller. The program is called Recovery of Airbase Denied by Ordnance (RADBO). They could be ready by early fiscal year 2017, program officials said.
Parsons Delivers First RADBO System To U.S. Air Force
2023年4月5日 · Delivering direct support capability to the Air Force Resilient Basing Operational Imperative, RADBO is comprised of three main components; a mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicle, Parsons’ developed ZEUS® directed energy system, and an …
Army, Air Force take bomb disposal to new level with lasers
2015年7月7日 · RADBO's laser can detonate bombs up to 300 meters and the Army's integrated interrogator arm and manipulator claw, which can pull 50 pounds of debris up from cracks and underneath rubble....
Air Force to get MRAPS for clearing airfields
2020年9月24日 · The contract provides for 13 fully operational MRAP RADBO systems (Cougar, Laser, and Arm) and three spares systems that will provide the warfighter with the ability to effectively identify, disarm and clear unexploded ordnance from an airfield while inside an MRAP Cougar (CAT1A1) vehicle, with little to no collateral damage.
Military Support
Laser Fabrication and Machine provides support to the U.S. Military and produces fabricated parts for various tactical wheeled vehicles. We produce a version of the Self-Protection Adaptive Roller Kit (SPARKII) which can be used on vehicles such …