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2025-07-16 Science & Technology
Meet the weapon that makes air defense look like science fiction

…50+ drones down.
Built for the wars of the future. 🇺🇸

📡 Meet the weapon that makes air defense look like science fiction:
Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-07-16 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [251 views ]  Top

#1 Super Quiet Special Operations Drones Being Modified To Launch Smaller Drones
Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-16 01:46||   2025-07-16 01:46|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#2 THOR Microwave Anti-Drone System Downs Swarms In Test

British High-Power Microwave Weapon Successfully Tested Against Drone Swarms
Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-16 01:49||   2025-07-16 01:49|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#3 Marines Get Their First High Power Microwave Weapon For Taking On Drone Swarms

More flavors than a box of crayons.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-16 01:51||   2025-07-16 01:51|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#4 Just don't stand in front of the array when it activate! Yike!
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-07-16 03:11||   2025-07-16 03:11|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#5 The DOD keeps thinking foreign battlefields.

Stop an ask what's to keep a Terrorist group from using a van loaded with Mini Palm size drones and releasing them around Congress / the White House and set to certain faces?


Check out Part #3 using A.I.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-07-16 07:04||   2025-07-16 07:04|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#6 Excellent for prisoner interrogation. After you nuke the first guy the rest should talk.
Posted by Silentbrick 2025-07-16 07:14||   2025-07-16 07:14|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#7 Imagine what that can do with a bag of popcorn.
Posted by windbag 2025-07-16 08:49||   2025-07-16 08:49|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#8 Imagine Starlink satellites passing overhead past where this is fired.
Posted by ed in texas 2025-07-16 08:56||   2025-07-16 08:56|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#9 #7 Imagine what that can do with a bag of popcorn.
Posted by: windbag || 07/16/2025 8:49 Comments || Top||

...Oh, you know some E4 is gonna try it.

And as a historical aside, there are verified reports of Soviet Air Force aircraft types roasting rabbits and game birds with the radars from the Mig-25 and 31. Did a better jab than the cooks in the chow hall.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-07-16 14:27||   2025-07-16 14:27|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#10 I remember throwing a piece of steel wool into Hawk HPI beam.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-16 14:58||   2025-07-16 14:58|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#11 What happened, Grom?
Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-16 18:04||   2025-07-16 18:04|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#12 It melted.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-16 18:08||   2025-07-16 18:08|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#13 My understanding is it grew out of development from the National Severe Stroms Lab (NSSL). They had got hold of a decommisioned SPY-1 phased array from an old Aegis cruiser, and were using for storm research. Mounted it on a truck and took it into the field. Every time they used it they would get complaints from power companies about damage to nearby transformers and isolators.
Remember to always point it up.
Posted by ed in texas 2025-07-16 18:58||   2025-07-16 18:58|| Front Page || Comments   Top

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