Pulsar / Pulsar-L

Pulsar is Anduril Industries ’ family of electronic-warfare systems, unveiled at SOF Week in May 2024 and built around a single idea: that electromagnetic warfare should be software-defined and continuously retrained, rather than a fixed box that takes months to reprogram when the enemy changes a waveform. Pulsar detects, identifies, tracks and defeats threats across the electromagnetic spectrum — jamming and geolocating drones, disrupting hostile communications, and supporting friendly links — and it does so with onboard artificial intelligence that classifies signals it has not seen before. When one Pulsar encounters a new emitter, the company says, that signature can be pushed out so the rest of the fleet learns to recognise it, collapsing the electronic-warfare reprogramming cycle from the usual months down to hours or days.

The family spans form factors. There are airborne configurations, ground and vehicle-mounted versions, and fixed-site installations, all sharing the same software core. In April 2025 Anduril added Pulsar-L, a lightweight, man-portable member that weighs under 25 pounds — roughly shoebox-sized — and can be set up and running in about two minutes, aimed at small units that need to counter drones and drone swarms in heavily contested electronic environments. Pulsar systems can operate on their own or feed into Anduril’s Lattice software and other common operating pictures, including the widely used TAK situational-awareness tools. The company has not published the frequency bands the systems cover.

The disclosed customers are American. Anduril said at the May 2024 launch that Pulsar was already fielded with some US forces, with Special Operations Command among the early users, and described a goal of producing more than a hundred low-rate units by the end of 2025 and eventually thousands a year. The product’s pitch is shaped by the war in Ukraine, where electronic warfare has proliferated faster than fielded systems can be updated; Anduril’s argument is that a software-defined jammer that retrains itself is the only practical way to keep pace.