Optical Dazzling Interceptor, Navy (ODIN)
According to the Navy’s FY budget submission, the Optical Dazzling Interceptor, Navy ODIN) effort is designed to provide “near-term, directed energy, shipboard Counter-Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C-ISR) capabilities to dazzle Unmanned Aerial Systems
(UASs) and other platforms that address urgent operational needs of the Fleet 58
The Navy plans to procure ODIN to deploy on Arleigh Burke Flight IIA destroyers. FY funding for ODIN would complete the procurement, assembly, checkout, integration, test and evaluation, and installation of ODIN units 4 and 5; continue the procurement, assembly, checkout, integration, test and evaluation of units 6, 7, and 8; and provide for the operation and sustainment of units 1 through ODIN is reportedly the successor to the 30 kW HEL program and installed aboard the USS
Portland and the USS Dewey.
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The press has reported that the ODIN system has been identified to fill an urgent need for Pacific Fleet.
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