High Powered Microwave

Directed energy weapons can counter a wide variety of drone threats

Military

Raytheon to build microwave weapon antennas for US Air Force and Navy

The US Navy and US Air Force have tapped Raytheon to design, build and test two high-power microwave antenna systems. These will be used in field-grade directed energy weapons to counter aerial drones and similar threats.

The Leonidas high-power microwave weapon

Military

US Army awards contract for microwave weapon to counter drone swarms

The US Army has awarded Eprius a contract worth US$66.1 million to deliver prototypes of a new microwave weapon called Leonidas that is capable of bringing down entire swarms of enemy drones in a single burst, while leaving friendly aircraft intact.

The Leonidas directed energy weapon stands ready to defend against swarms of drones all at once

Military

Leonidas microwave energy weapon can disable swarms of drones at once

An entire drone swarm defense system in a fold-up trailer, the Leonidas by Epirus uses high-powered microwave energy to disable electronics, either in targeted beam forming precision strikes, or by creating wide-beam "force fields" to clear areas.

BAE Systems has presented the fruits of its Future Protected Vehicle program (FPV) to the U.K. Ministry of Defence

Military

Sweating stealth vehicle among BAE Systems future battlefield concepts

BAE Systems has presented the fruits of its Future Protected Vehicle program (FPV) to the U.K. Ministry of Defence, and it's an intiguing glimpse of the what we can expect to see in tomorrow's high-tech battlefield

Boeing to develop counter-electronics high power microwave demonstrator

Aircraft

Boeing to develop airborne, non-lethal counter-electronics weapon

The Boeing Company has just received a USD$38 million contract to develop and test a high powered microwave (HPM) airborne demonstrator for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) capable of neutralizing target electronics with limited collateral damage.