With drones making the news so much lately, a munitions company is stepping in to offer a solution for the government to neuturalize them. Here is the press release detailing their solution to use standard chambered ammunition that includes compounds to disrupt the electronic systems these robotics depend on:
HOP Munitions is proud to unveil Electrically Disruptive Projectiles (EDP), a groundbreaking innovation designed to counteract modern threats like drones, robotics, and exoskeletons. In collaboration with RoboRounds, HOP Munitions will manufacture and distribute these cutting-edge rounds for 9mm, .45 ACP, and 12-gauge firearms, setting a new standard in modern defense.
HOP Munitions remains committed to pushing the boundaries of ammunition technology to meet evolving threats. The Electrically Disruptive Projectiles initiative is a testament to our mission of innovation, precision, and reliability in modern defense.
The Growing Problem: A World of Robotics
Robots and drones have transitioned from futuristic concepts to everyday realities. They are now commonplace in daily life, from delivery drones and robotic assistants to tactical and battlefield applications. Interaction with some form of robotics is a part of modern existence, but the rise of these technologies also brings serious security concerns.
Robots and Drones: From Everyday Tools to Weapons
While robotics and drones enhance convenience and efficiency, they have also become weaponized. Autonomous vehicles, UAVs, underwater robots, and tactical machines are now fixtures on the battlefield and in covert operations. The ability to weaponize these technologies has created a new threat landscape that demands innovative solutions.
The Problem is Electronic
At their core, robots and drones rely on intricate electronic systems. These systems include:
- Signals and Sensors: Critical for navigation and surveillance.
- Circuitry and Mechatronics: The backbone of robotic operations.
- Actuators and Electricity: Essential for movement and functionality.
Traditional countermeasures, such as jamming signals or EMP devices, have limitations, often causing widespread collateral disruption rather than precision. The rise of these electronic threats necessitates a targeted solution that can neutralize individual threats effectively.
“By 2025, the share of robots in the Russian weapon structure is supposed to reach 30%.” – Rand: Russia’s Asymmetric Response to 21st Century Strategic Competition
The Solution: Electrically Disruptive Projectiles
Electrically Disruptive Projectiles (EDPs) offer the precision and reliability needed to combat electronic threats head-on. Unlike traditional measures, EDPs are designed for scalable and targeted disruption.
How EDPs Work
EDPs deploy advanced compounds on impact, designed to incapacitate critical electronic and mechanical systems. These rounds deliver between 3-5 grams of specialized material, effectively neutralizing components such as:
- Cameras
- LIDAR systems
- Electromechanical components
Multiple hits amplify the disruption, ensuring total incapacitation of advanced threats.
Key Applications
EDPs are tailored to address the most pressing technological threats:
- Drones: Precision-neutralize surveillance and delivery drones without collateral damage.
- Robotics: Effectively disable autonomous machines, including ground-based or tactical robots.
- Exoskeletons: Counter advanced military or industrial systems reliant on electromechanical components.
EDPs represent a practical alternative to EMP devices, providing targeted results without unintended consequences.
HOP Munitions: Innovating Counter-Threat Ammunition
As the exclusive manufacturing partner for RoboRounds, HOP Munitions leverages its expertise to produce EDP rounds with maximum impact.
Product Lineup
- .45 ACP: Engineered with a hollow-point design, these rounds carry up to 4 grams of disruptive compounds, sealed with a precision cap to ensure delivery.
- 12-Gauge Slugs: Designed for larger payloads, these slugs provide unmatched disruption power against high-tech threats.
- 9mm Variant: Currently under development, HOP Munitions is collaborating with material scientists to perfect the design for optimal real-world performance.
Broad Market Accessibility
Electrically Disruptive Projectiles will be available to:
- Civilians: Protect assets, privacy, and public safety.
- Law Enforcement: Equip officers with a tool to neutralize modern threats effectively.
- Military: Provide an edge in counter-robotic warfare and infrastructure defense.
Whether defending infrastructure, ensuring privacy, or neutralizing hostile technology, EDP ammunition offers a revolutionary tool for modern defense.
Debuting at SHOT Show
HOP Munitions will debut the .45 ACP and 12-gauge EDP rounds at the upcoming SHOT Show, offering attendees an exclusive first look at this game-changing technology.
While the .45 ACP and 12-gauge slug are production-ready, the 9mm variant remains under development to meet rigorous performance and safety standards.
With Electrically Disruptive Projectiles, HOP Munitions is redefining modern defense, equipping users with the precision tools needed to counter today’s technological threats effectively. These revolutionary rounds are the solution to a growing problem that no longer exists in science fiction but in our daily lives.
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This is a stupid article: “Electrically Disruptive Projectiles” is nothing more than a marketing headline sent out by the ATF/FBI to entrap Americans.
If you want to get rid of the drones, make an atomic flak round with your 3D printer. I have the blueprints – on $999.99 for the 1st page, 50% off an all other pages.
Send email to [email protected]. Make sure you have your contact info on the email
Totally unnecessary. There are several “guns” on the market that can be used. One is a 5-6 frequency jammer (which, with the right equipment and amps, a little radio knowledge, and a 3D printer, could be made easily by most of us) – it jams all the typically used frequencies used for communicating with a consumer drone (generally forcing a land or Return to Home). Then there is what is basically a microwave gun. It essentially nukes the circuits (assuming it’s not a hardened military drone flying at night over NJ).
Can’t wait until people start force landing delivery drones and stealing their payloads… you know that will be coming eventually.
Just to be sure I’m reading this right, it’s a type of bullet that *might* disable machines on impact? Game-changing, since DGI Minis are notoriously SO EASY to shoot.
In all seriousness, I’ll be curious how these actually compare to just shooting regular, normal bullets.
Got “disruptive compounds” is all sciencey stuff. Don’t worry yourself with details. Send $.
I could see this getting someone in trouble🙄😀
Ain’t that what 3″ magnum #4s are for?
Uses special compounds. Sure. BB shot is effective too.
Huh?
If the projectile must actually hit the drone, what happens when the projectile does not make contact? And why is electronic disruption impact better than kinetic impact?
I guess there are more questions, but I woke up about 30min ago, and haven’t had my first martini, yet.
Bull shit!
Oh, great. Now every miss spreads anti-electronics goo or powder all over the ground.
If these projectiles have to actually hit to spread their goo or powder around and disable the drone, isn’t hat enough damage?
Or to put it another way, what’s the point?
I need a lot more information before HOP Munitions convinces me that their projectiles will neutralize drones, robots, and exoskeletons.
Their claim of delivering about 4 grams of a substance seems incredibly suspect. What substance? Does the substance have to penetrate the outer shell of the targets to spread the substance onto circuit boards? Or can the substance be on the outside of the drone, robot, or exoskeleton to disable it?
Off the top of my head, the only substance which could have any chance of disrupting those devices without reaching their internal circuit boards would be highly radioactive nastiness which would be unsafe in firearm cartridges in the first place.
As for any substance that would be problematic inside those devices, I can only think of a burst of thin metal flakes to short-circuit circuit board traces or component pins. And even that is doubtful if drone, robot, and exoskeleton manufacturers coat their completed circuit boards.
The last possible explanation that I can imagine is implementing microscopic shape charges with copper to mimic (on a super tiny scale) rocket-propelled grenades. In that case, you would not need very much molten copper blasting through a drone, robot, or exoskeleton to significantly degrade, damage, disable, or outright destroy it.
You can’t accept that 4gm of sumpin will terminate a Cyberdyne Systems T-800?
Silly man, thinks civilians will be allowed anywhere near these rounds.
Silly man, thinking civilians being allowed near these rounds.
What goes up, must come down, it’s all well and good shooting at drones but if one misses.…
Hope the demonstration shows one of their employees actually hitting a drone on the move.
For defense, collateral EMP damage seems a decent tradeoff for not requiring precision aiming.
saying Its for civilians is bs, because per FAA and federal law drones are aircraft, federal charges would apply for tampering, sabotaging or shooting an aircraft.
not to mention safety and people getting hit when the rounds fall back when drone is missed.
Testing:IS TTAG working?
Rubbish press release. Let’s see video of the ammo working as intended from Ukraine against suicide-FPS-drones before claiming it works.
TTAG broken?
Yeah!! American ingenuity.
Sounds like bullshit to me. You’d be about as well off to fill the projectile with said bull shit as the host of corrosive and caustic metals and technochemical crap they listed in their source abstract.
I notice it isn’t April first though.
Some regular bullet holes followed by a spray of salt water from a repurposed flamethrower would have a similar effect.