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2025-07-16 Science & Technology

Meet the weapon that makes air defense look like science fiction

🔴 BREAKING: The U.S. Army now has a weapon that can instantly fry entire drone swarms.
It's not a laser.
It's not a missile.
It’s Leonidas — a microwave cannon that sends out a pulse and melts electronics mid-air ⚡

No ammo. No reload. Just pure energy.

One blast = 50+ drones… pic.twitter.com/8vDtRVjjMa
— Defence Index (@Defence_Index) July 14, 2025

…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 [222 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

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