Drones are cheap to build and showing up everywhere they are not supposed to. The systems built to stop them are not: interceptor missiles cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per kill against threats assembled for a few thousand. Jammers buy time but not outcomes. And nearly every solution on the market still requires a human watching a screen — a bottleneck that collapses the moment threats arrive in coordinated swarms rather than one at a time. The economics are inverted, the operator is saturated, and the threat is compounding.
Stop drones at the speed of light, for the cost of electricity.
Aurelius Systems built Archimedes: an autonomous counter-UAS laser system combining high-power directed energy, optical sensing, and AI autonomy to detect, track, lock, and neutralize Group 1 and 2 drone threats in seconds — no operator required, from acquisition to engagement. Built on COTS hardware for cost and production speed, powered interchangeably by grid, generator, or battery, and compact enough for rapid deployment without heavy logistics, Archimedes units deployed in numbers form a resilient defense grid: persistent protection for forces, facilities, and critical infrastructure. Field-proven in live conditions including adverse weather, validated at T-REX 26-2, and now scaling through a partnership with American Rheinmetall.
More Thoughts From the Team at BVVC:
“Every week brings a new demonstration of the same lesson: the drone has democratized air power, and the defense has not kept pace. When a $40,000 quadcopter can force the expenditure of a million-dollar interceptor, the exchange ratio itself becomes the adversary’s weapon. Magazines run out. Budgets run out. Attention runs out. The West’s blind spot is not that we lack counter-drone systems — it is that we lack counter-drone systems whose economics survive contact with a thousand-drone reality.
Directed energy has been promised for decades. What changed is not the physics; it is the engineering discipline. Aurelius took the pragmatic path — commercial components, compact form factors, autonomy that removes the human bottleneck — and produced a system that costs electricity per engagement and scales like a product, not a program of record. That is the unfair advantage: not a bigger laser, but a deployable one.
We invest in Teams, and this one is building with the urgency the moment demands. In the layered air defense of the next decade, the bottom tier — the cheap, persistent, autonomous tier — will do most of the killing. Aurelius is building that tier for the United States and our allies.”
“The increased use of coordinated drone threats has fundamentally changed the definition of readiness, which is why we developed a scalable platform built for speed, volume and the economics of today’s operating environment.”
– Michael LaFramboise, CEO and Co-Founder