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2025-03-21 Science & Technology

'Star Trek shield' technology gets $250M boost to knock drone swarms from the sky with high-powered microwave

[FoxNews] A new high-powered microwave system that can knock swarms of drones out of the sky at once is going to "touch every aspect of warfare," according to Epirus founder, Joe Lonsdale.

"It’s kind of like a Star Trek shield," Lonsdale, founder of Epirus and a co-founder of fast-rising defense technology company Palantir, explained of its Leonidas counter-drone system. "It’s able to turn them off from very far away."

"This is going to touch every aspect of warfare over the next decade," he told Fox News Digital. "We can knock down some pretty advanced drones."

Defense tech startup Epirus secured another $250 million in a Series D funding round, which was announced Wednesday, bringing its total venture funding to over $550 million.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-21 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11193 views ] Top

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Now imagine COOKING, let us say 200 ft x 200 ft. 2+ miles deep of Air.

I wonder what that will do?

Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-21 04:52|| 2025-03-21 04:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Iron Beam - High Energy Laser Weapon

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-21 05:42|| 2025-03-21 05:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Drones Take Over Fighting in Much of Ukraine War

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-21 05:49|| 2025-03-21 05:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Hunting Killer Drones With Your Father's 12-Gauge?

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-21 06:24|| 2025-03-21 06:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Look up MASER. Invented before the LASER. I've wondered for some time why the hell our bases aren't using that tech, years ago.

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