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Edda

About 23 kg counter-drone turret: acoustic detection cues an onboard visual tracker and a fast motion platform aims a 12-gauge shotgun at small drones 10-100 m away. Emits no RF.

by 9 Mothers

Limited fieldingLand
An Edda counter-drone turret at the Sandhills 2.0 exercise at Fort Bragg

Photo: U.S. Army photo by Spc. Ra Hetep · Public domain (PD-USGov-Military-Army) · Resized and reencoded as WebP; no additional crop. The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.

About 23 kg counter-drone turret: acoustic detection cues an onboard visual tracker and a fast motion platform aims a 12-gauge shotgun at small drones 10-100 m away. Emits no RF.

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Technologies2

Supply chain inputs1

  • Onboard visual model implies embedded AI compute; module not disclosed.

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Operators1

  • USUnited States

News3

Sources4

  1. 1.

    U.S. Army · Aug 26, 2026 · Supports: System

    “An Edda counter-unmanned aircraft system turret awaits testing during the Project Sandhills 2.0 live-fire exercise at Range 63, Fort Bragg, N.C., Aug. 18, 2026.”
  2. 2.

    The Defence Blog · Aug 23, 2026 · Supports: System

    “The Edda turret weighs about 23 kg (50 pounds) and detects drones acoustically”
  3. 3.

    9 Mothers · Supports: System · system input:edge-ai-compute

    “refined to fine targeting by an onboard in-house developed visual model”
  4. 4.

    Y Combinator · Supports: System

    “Multiple systems delivered to the DoW.”

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