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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:

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#1 Super Quiet Special Operations Drones Being Modified To Launch Smaller Drones

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

British High-Power Microwave Weapon Successfully Tested Against Drone Swarms

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#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.

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#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.

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#8 Imagine Starlink satellites passing overhead past where this is fired.

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