Microwave blasters can down even jam-proof drones
America’s army is already deploying the technology
ON APRIL 28TH Bray McCollum, a US Army captain, was tasked with conducting a military exercise in the Philippines. His job was to test a new weapon, the army’s first specifically designed to down a swarm of drones with a single shot. The Leonidas IFPC-HPM, as the system is called, fires intense pulses of microwave radiation that “disrupt or destroy” electronic componentry in drones, says Captain McCollum. It worked.
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